Expenditure by category of expenditure

In 2020, Germany's expenditure by category of expenditure decreased by 53.0% compared to 2019, reaching 5,786,342,513.

Germany accounts for 29.5% of the EU-27 total of 19,613,200,345.

Germany ranks 1st 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 44.5% (from 10,433,661,694 in 2015).

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