General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Italy's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) increased by 0.6% compared to 2006, reaching 17.3%.

Italy ranks 7th 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 6.8% (from 16.2% in 2002).

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