General government expenditure on cultural services as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) in Central and Eastern European countries from 2020 to 2023
Characteristic
2020
2022
2023
Estonia
0.9%
0.9%
1%
Hungary
1.3%
1.1%
1%
Latvia
0.9%
0.9%
0.9%
Croatia
0.7%
0.7%
0.8%
Lithuania
0.9%
0.7%
0.8%
Slovenia
0.7%
0.7%
0.7%
Czechia
0.6%
0.6%
0.6%
Poland
0.7%
0.6%
0.6%
Bulgaria
0.4%
0.4%
0.5%
EU27
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
Slovakia
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
Romania
0.4%
0.3%
0.3%
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In 2023, the Estonian, Hungarian, and Latvian governments spent the most on cultural services in the CEE region. The average for the European Union was 0.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) over the observed period.
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