Less pork can be bought on the average salary, especially in Kyiv and Volyn

Submitted by bashun on Fri, 06/08/2018 - 11:29

The purchasing power of Ukrainians over the year fell by 11%. Such conclusions were made in the Association of suppliers of trade networks, where they found this indicator not in the usual for the Western world BigMacs, but in pork, agroday.com.ua reported.

"In a year - since April 2017 to April 2018 - on average salary pork can be bought on average 9 kg less," - Oleksii Doroshenko, chairman of the association noted on his Facebook page .

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In this case the expert noted only two regions can be proud of the increase in pork consumption - Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk. Residents of these regions in 2018 can afford 5 kg more pork than last year.

The greatest drop in consumption occurred in Kyiv city, Kyiv region and Volyn region. Here, the purchasing power of Ukrainians was reduced by just 15 kg of pork. Volyn is an anti leader and in relative terms - purchasing power fell by a record 20%.

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At the same time meat continues raising up, and this situation will not change exactly.

This is despite the fact that the cost of meat is already growing faster than the average salary.

For example, over the analyzed period, depending on the region, wages showed an increase of 22-36%. And less and less pork can be bought for these funds.

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