Expenditure by category of expenditure

In 2024, the EU-27 figure for expenditure by category of expenditure was 49,937,528,189 .

That is a 5.8% rose versus 2023 (47,209,281,563).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 29.3% higher.

Across member states, Germany reported the highest value (15,825,967,856, 2024) and Malta the lowest (71,642,520, 2024) — a ratio of 220.9× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tin00194; every value links back to the canonical source.