General government expenditure by function

In 2014, Italy's general government expenditure by function increased by 0.0% compared to 2013, reaching 7.00.

Italy accounts for 98.6% of the EU-27 total of 7.10.

Italy ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 5.4% (from 7.40 in 2009).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_sp110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.