General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Italy's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 2.9% compared to 2006, reaching 6.6%.

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 6.5% (from 6.2% in 2002).

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