Toy expenses

Each year, the parents of a Belgian child spend an average of 204 euro on toy’s for their tots. When including videogames, the average can be raised up to 399 euro. We can thus conclude that, despite the financial crisis, there is still a considerable amount of money reserved for the pleasure and wellbeing of our children.

For the last years, the European toy market has grown 10% annually. According to the consumer organization OIVO(Belgium), the Belgian market grew only 7,8% each year. Nevertheless, this is still a much higher percentage than the growth of average consumption expenses, which was only 2,1% in the past few years.

Source: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/943/Ombudsman/article/detail/491777/2008/11/18/Belg-koopt-tot-339-euro-speelgoed-per-kind.dhtml

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