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Councils. Budget. Per àrees i polítiques de despesa Catalonia
2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Expenditure 1,786.83 1,634.03 1,624.95 1,591.21 1,571.57 1,540.05 1,444.61 1,392.19 1,088.57 1,095.82 942.39 992.27 1,085.83
1. Basic public services 92.82 85.96 127.67 116.05 108.02 97.02 82.79 98.94 135.91 102.31 80.69 92.08 100.74
Public safety and mobility 1.27 0.84 0.49 0.00 0.00 0.13 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.45
Housing and urban planning 22.30 26.24 52.30 40.99 43.58 43.77 27.09 44.60 50.95 23.30 12.16 27.71 22.42
Community well-being 0.04 0.97 3.37 3.85 4.23 0.08 0.03 0.03 36.40 33.63 27.35 20.40 25.42
Environment 69.21 57.91 71.51 71.21 60.21 53.04 55.65 54.31 48.56 45.38 41.18 43.97 52.45
2. Social protection and promotion actions 145.01 134.98 114.61 115.72 133.24 128.01 128.41 87.04 84.98 77.91 65.99 72.04 78.54
Pensions 0.12 0.12 0.10 0.10 0.12 0.13 0.17 0.19 0.19 0.19 1.83 2.30 2.36
Other financial benefits for employees 7.25 6.66 6.00 5.50 5.25 5.04 4.79 6.74 3.15 3.15 3.53 3.26 2.73
Social services and social promotion 109.12 99.05 84.37 86.60 87.76 82.91 104.71 66.28 62.73 66.32 53.02 55.93 60.12
Employment development 28.53 29.15 24.14 23.52 40.12 39.93 18.74 13.83 18.91 8.25 7.60 10.55 13.33
3. Production of permanent public assets 278.81 259.98 308.21 279.91 292.78 276.24 244.98 232.22 223.44 193.79 188.18 209.05 234.18
Health 49.43 46.81 48.50 46.41 45.48 46.73 41.15 46.53 37.43 38.99 31.53 34.22 33.38
Education 71.04 74.43 91.86 75.53 102.98 97.78 88.75 73.84 62.67 41.57 58.32 61.62 66.36
Culture 139.50 119.30 142.20 130.29 120.83 107.76 99.41 94.68 100.93 98.64 89.95 100.51 117.61
Sport 18.83 19.43 25.65 27.68 23.50 23.97 15.67 17.17 22.41 14.59 8.37 12.71 16.83
4. Financial actions 260.78 235.42 244.81 230.19 214.06 197.41 180.82 167.15 128.80 125.55 98.64 116.97 148.78
Agriculture, livestock and fishing 6.76 11.85 14.07 9.16 6.87 0.84 0.73 0.74 0.83 0.60 1.06 0.55 0.90
Industry and energy 2.61 0.20 0.54 0.66 1.18 0.17 0.02 0.01 0.00 0.03 0.01 0.14 0.00
Trade, tourism and small and medium enterprises 67.02 64.75 76.75 71.25 61.22 56.84 53.28 43.97 42.30 37.93 33.66 41.05 64.62
Public transport 0.16 0.16 0.17 0.20 0.19 0.19 0.19 0.19 0.18 0.15 0.15 3.80 5.09
Infrastructures 126.44 105.96 97.66 88.62 95.59 86.55 85.35 86.03 72.69 76.49 54.33 60.19 65.42
Research, development and innovation 5.29 2.47 2.34 2.22 2.05 2.62 2.33 2.13 0.78 0.77 0.00 0.00 0.00
Other financial actions 52.51 50.04 53.28 58.08 46.96 50.21 38.92 34.09 12.02 9.59 9.44 11.24 12.75
9. General actions 1,002.18 911.41 802.04 816.11 781.23 790.86 749.91 748.40 444.34 516.80 419.39 398.97 435.98
Organs of governance 31.20 28.66 29.56 28.29 29.14 31.74 31.16 25.21 23.35 25.77 25.33 27.38 29.80
General services 224.60 205.16 203.02 185.54 179.96 162.16 166.94 165.79 149.76 153.16 147.50 165.02 157.64
Financial and tax administration 504.89 492.03 469.01 454.80 449.61 453.86 390.88 350.49 131.60 130.32 120.10 124.64 129.39
Transfers to public administrations 241.49 185.57 100.45 147.48 122.51 143.09 160.92 206.90 139.64 207.55 126.45 81.93 115.28
0. Public debt 7.23 6.29 27.60 33.22 42.25 50.51 57.68 58.43 71.10 79.47 89.51 103.16 87.60
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Ministry of the Presidency.
Notes:
- Consolidated data by General Administration and Autonomous Organisations.
- From 2010, the data in the classification by programmes cannot be compared with that of previous years due to a change in standards. (Order EHA/3565/2008, of December 3, which passed the budget structure of local entities).

Last update: July 13, 2023.

PRELOC

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on Budgets and Settlements of Local Authorities in Catalonia (PRELOC).

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Local administration
The part of Public administration made up of minor political bodies of a territorial nature.
Local council
Organ that governs and administrates a province.
Budget
Expression of the accounts for the economic plans of the public sector for a certain period of time (generally one year). Every public entity of a legal nature makes its own budget which shows, in disaggregated form, the corresponding forecasts for income and limitations of expenditure. Depending on the different phases, the budget may be:

Methodological aspects

In terms of Local administration, the preventive budgets are presented for the four Catalan provinces, the budgets for county councils, by chapters and counties, and the aggregated budgets of all local councils by chapters and functions. Also included is county data for the rustic and urban property taxes.

Les dades de la classificació per programes a partir de 2010 no són comparables amb les d'anys anteriors per un canvi de normativa (Ordre EHA/3565/2008, de 3 de desembre, per la que s'aprova l'estructura dels pressupostos de les entitats locals).

Recently, Law 23/2010, of July 22, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas with the incorporation of the Penedès region. This new territorial area includes the counties of Alt Penedès, l'Anoia, el Baix Penedès and el Garraf. In consequence, the territorial boundaries of the area of Metropolità, Comarques centrals and Camp de Tarragona are modified, and their data is therefore not directly comparable with previous years.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".