Expenditure by category of expenditure

In 2021, Belgium's expenditure by category of expenditure increased by 49.4% compared to 2020, reaching 486,903,194.

Belgium accounts for 2.0% of the EU-27 total of 24,152,063,688.

Belgium ranks 11th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 28.1% (from 676,853,552 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00194, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.