General government expenditure by function

In 2020, Italy's general government expenditure by function increased by 16.4% compared to 2019, reaching 7.80.

Italy accounts for 97.5% of the EU-27 total of 8.00.

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 grown by 11.4% (from 7.00 in 2015).

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