General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2008, Italy's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 4.4% compared to 2007, reaching 4.3%.

Italy ranks 21st out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 6.5% (from 4.6% in 2003).

Source: Eurostat dataset gov_10a_exp, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.