General government expenditure by function

In 2016, Spain's general government expenditure by function decreased by 1.6% compared to 2015, reaching 6.00.

Spain accounts for 85.7% of the EU-27 total of 7.00.

Spain ranks 14th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 7.7% (from 6.50 in 2011).

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