{
  "query": {
    "country": "IE"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unit": "per person per day",
    "value": 2.75,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2025-01-01",
    "to": "2025-12-31"
  },
  "confidence": "low",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2025",
    "note": "Modelled estimate of the least-cost healthy diet, not a shop price or a receipt."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-18T20:54:21.985Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "wb-fpn-diet-costs",
    "name": "Food Prices for Nutrition 5.0: cost of a healthy diet (World Bank)",
    "publisher": "World Bank, Development Data Group, with Tufts University (Food Prices for Nutrition project)",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), per the World Bank Data Catalog record 0061222",
    "licence_url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses?fragment=cc",
    "attribution": "Source: World Bank, Food Prices for Nutrition (FPN 5.0), https://databank.worldbank.org/source/food-prices-for-nutrition, licensed CC BY 4.0. Figures are passed on as published; the change on the previous year is calculated by ProofPrice.",
    "url": "https://databank.worldbank.org/source/food-prices-for-nutrition"
  },
  "method": "World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition 5.0: modelled national cost of the healthy diet (whole), per person per day, in local currency and 2021 PPP dollars; passed on as published, with the change on the previous year calculated by ProofPrice. A model, not a list of sales.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "The cheapest healthy diet in Ireland was modelled at about €2.75 per person per day in 2025 (3.14 PPP dollars); up 3.8% on 2024. Official average published by World Bank, Development Data Group, with Tufts University (Food Prices for Nutrition project) for 2025.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "modelled": true,
    "food_group": "healthy diet (whole)",
    "local_currency_per_person_per_day": 2.75,
    "ppp_dollars_per_person_per_day": 3.14,
    "change_on_previous_year_percent": 3.8,
    "history": [
      {
        "year": 2025,
        "local": 2.75,
        "ppp_dollars": 3.14
      },
      {
        "year": 2024,
        "local": 2.65,
        "ppp_dollars": 3
      },
      {
        "year": 2023,
        "local": 2.58,
        "ppp_dollars": 2.91
      },
      {
        "year": 2022,
        "local": 2.35,
        "ppp_dollars": 2.58
      },
      {
        "year": 2021,
        "local": 2.2,
        "ppp_dollars": 2.29
      },
      {
        "year": 2020,
        "local": 2.2,
        "ppp_dollars": 2.22
      },
      {
        "year": 2019,
        "local": 2.23,
        "ppp_dollars": 2.3
      },
      {
        "year": 2018,
        "local": 2.25,
        "ppp_dollars": 2.27
      },
      {
        "year": 2017,
        "local": 2.3,
        "ppp_dollars": 2.33
      }
    ],
    "data_updated": "2026-07-21",
    "food_groups": [
      "fruit",
      "vegetables",
      "animal-source foods",
      "legumes, nuts and seeds",
      "oils and fats",
      "starchy staples"
    ]
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_b89f5b4a12572a28a42a",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-18T20:54:21.985Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "official_statistic",
    "label": "Official published average",
    "meaning": "One average or median that a statistics office or regulator publishes for a reference period: it describes a group, not a distribution, and says nothing about any single price."
  },
  "reliability": "official_median_no_count",
  "data_as_of": "2025-12-31",
  "data_age_days": 291,
  "suggestions": [
    "This is one published average or median with no record count: use it as a reference point, not as a range of what individuals paid.",
    "For a decision on a specific job or purchase, ask for an itemised quote."
  ]
}