General government expenditure by function

In 2010, Germany's general government expenditure by function decreased by 1.4% compared to 2009, reaching 6.90.

Germany accounts for 95.8% of the EU-27 total of 7.20.

Germany ranks 12th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 7.8% (from 6.40 in 2005).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_sp110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.