General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Italy's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 2.1% compared to 2006, reaching 46.6%.

Italy ranks 8th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.2% (from 46.5% in 2002).

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