The data combined the cost of actual rents paid with an estimate of the cost of housing owners would pay if they rented their home on the open market – known as “imputed rent”. Housing in Poland, by contrast, has the lowest share of spending of any OECD country, with only 6%. The largest expenditure item across all countries but one was imputed rentals for housing. Poland is the exception, where electricity, gas and other fuels was measured as the largest expenditure. Poland’s heavy dependency on fossil fuels led to some of the highest wholesale electricity prices in Europe following Russia’s …