The table illustrated how much government spending on five areas of three different countries relates to domestic policy in 2009. The unit of measurement was percentage.
Overall, the level of expenditure in health remained highly stable among three countries while environmental protection was the least spending one.
According to the table, public services were really focused on in Italy with the highest percentage, at 8.6%, followed by Germany, at 6.6% and the last was the UK with only 4.6%. Health, especially, got all countries attention with almost the same high percentage as the highest was Italy at 7.9% and the lowest was Germany, at 7.1%. However, the UK invested the highest funding on education with 6.4%, followed by Italy and Germany with respectively at 4.6% and 4.3%. Economic affairs stay stable among three countries at approximately 4%. Environmental protection recorded the most minimal figure in all countries, at around 1%.