# Euro Area General government total expenditure, quarterly (seasonally & calendar adjusted, EUR mn)

Euro Area General government total expenditure, quarterly (seasonally & calendar adjusted, EUR mn) was up 5.0% year on year in Q2 2026, compared with 4.7% in Q1 2026.
The level stood at 2,053,850 € million.
That is the highest reading since Q2 2023.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.2% (Q4 2016) to 11.5% (Q2 2020), averaging 4.4%.

- Source agency: Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union)
- Makrognosis code: `EA.GOVEXP.Q.SA`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: € million
- Coverage: 2002-01-01 to 2026-04-01 (98 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/euro-area/general-government-total-expenditure-quarterly-seasonally-and-calendar

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 2,053,850 € million | 5.0 |
| Q1 2026 | 2,025,636 € million | 4.7 |
| Q4 2025 | 2,022,000 € million | 5.0 |
| Q3 2025 | 1,989,426 € million | 4.6 |
| Q2 2025 | 1,956,407 € million | 4.3 |
| Q1 2025 | 1,935,441 € million | 4.9 |
| Q4 2024 | 1,926,483 € million | 3.2 |
| Q3 2024 | 1,902,587 € million | 4.5 |
| Q2 2024 | 1,875,876 € million | 4.9 |
| Q1 2024 | 1,844,253 € million | 4.6 |
| Q4 2023 | 1,865,912 € million | 4.1 |
| Q3 2023 | 1,820,736 € million | 4.3 |
| Q2 2023 | 1,788,440 € million | 6.9 |
| Q1 2023 | 1,763,516 € million | 6.9 |
| Q4 2022 | 1,792,815 € million | 8.3 |
| Q3 2022 | 1,746,403 € million | 6.9 |
| Q2 2022 | 1,672,259 € million | 1.8 |
| Q1 2022 | 1,650,138 € million | 1.2 |
| Q4 2021 | 1,656,029 € million | 3.9 |
| Q3 2021 | 1,633,722 € million | 4.9 |
| Q2 2021 | 1,642,782 € million | 3.4 |
| Q1 2021 | 1,631,267 € million | 10.2 |
| Q4 2020 | 1,594,214 € million | 10.9 |
| Q3 2020 | 1,557,622 € million | 8.0 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/EA.GOVEXP.Q.SA"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/EA.GOVEXP.Q.SA",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```