The data illustrates the results of a survey about the estimated Christmas spending of U.S. consumers from 1999 to 2017. The most recent survey revealed that U.S. consumers expected to spend about 906 USD on average on Christmas gifts.
Holiday shoppingThe Christmas season or so called holiday season is the strongest sales period of the year for retailers. It usually commences on the Thanksgiving weekend with Black Friday being the leading sales and traffic day of the whole season, and continues to the end of January. Black Friday sales are closely followed by Super Saturday, which names the Saturday occurring before Christmas Eve.
'99 | 857 |
'00 | 817 |
'01 | 794 |
'02 | 690 |
'03 | 734 |
'04 | 730 |
'05 | 763 |
'06 | 826 |
'07 | 866 |
'08 | 616 |
'09 | 638 |
'10 | 714 |
'11 | 764 |
'12 | 770 |
'13 | 704 |
'14 | 720 |
'15 | 830 |
'16 | 752 |
'17 | 906 |