Expenditure by category of expenditure

In 2021, Germany's expenditure by category of expenditure increased by 16.5% compared to 2020, reaching 6,738,334,978.

Germany accounts for 27.9% of the EU-27 total of 24,152,063,688.

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 37.1% (from 10,706,895,304 in 2016).

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