General government expenditure by function

In 2019, Italy's general government expenditure by function increased by 0.0% compared to 2018, reaching 6.70.

Italy accounts for 95.7% of the EU-27 total of 7.00.

Italy ranks 11th 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 4.3% (from 7.00 in 2014).

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