Expenditure by category of expenditure

In 2021, Ireland's expenditure by category of expenditure decreased by 17.9% compared to 2020, reaching 406,769,023.

Ireland accounts for 1.7% of the EU-27 total of 24,152,063,688.

Ireland 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 fallen by 38.8% (from 664,611,031 in 2016).

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