In the fourth quarter of 2019, before COVID-19 containment measures began to be widely introduced by Member States, in the euro area, in real terms, household income per capita decreased by 0.1%, after an increase of 0.5% in the previous quarter. Household real consumption per capita decreased in the fourth quarter of 2019 by 0.1%, after an increase by 0.5% in the third quarter of 2019.