General government expenditure by function

In 2017, Germany's general government expenditure by function decreased by 1.4% compared to 2016, reaching 7.00.

Germany accounts for 101.4% of the EU-27 total of 6.90.

Germany ranks 9th 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 4.5% (from 6.70 in 2012).

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