Clothing Per Year Cost. We buy more clothes per person in the UK than any other country in Europe. The Census Bureau states that the average household income is about 50000 per year.
One outfit per month is perfectly acceptable. A growth rate 16 higher than the rest of the economy. 6272012 Americans spend an average of 1100 per person on clothes each year.
Thanks to falling costs streamlined operations and rising consumer spending clothing production doubled from 2000 to 2014 and the number of garments purchased per capita between 2000 and 2014 increased by about 60 percent.
The world now consumes about 80 billion new pieces of clothing every year. 3 The industry employs 890000 people in the UK. The average American now generates 82 pounds of textile waste each year. The estimated cost to the UK economy of landfilling clothing and household textiles each year is approximately GBP 82 million24 Around 350000 tonnes of clothes with an estimated value of 140 million go to landfill every year in the UK25 The UK throws away 47kg volume per capita of clothing in household residual waste26.