General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2009, Italy's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) increased by 5.7% compared to 2008, reaching 7.4%.

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 13.8% (from 6.5% in 2004).

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