General government expenditure by function

In 2024, the EU-27 figure for general government expenditure by function was 7.40 .

That is a 2.8% rose versus 2023 (7.20).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 5.7% higher.

Across member states, Austria reported the highest value (9.50, 2024) and Hungary the lowest (4.70, 2024) — a ratio of 2.0× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tepsr_sp110; every value links back to the canonical source.