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ESF budget by country

The table below gives an overview of budget allocations by country.

  ESF co-funding breakdown  
EU National Private* Total
Austria €524,412,560 €556,090,082 €80,000,000 €1,160,502,642
Belgium €1,073,217,594 €1,163,472,928 €92,532,777 €2,329,223,299
Bulgaria €1,185,459,863 €209,198,799 €0 €1,394,658,662
Cyprus €119,769,154 €29,942,289 €0 €149,711,443
Czech Republic €3,787,795,992 €663,601,854 €0 €4,451,397,846
Germany €9,380,654,763 €5,013,998,881 €1,551,471,116 €15,946,124,760
Denmark €254,788,619 €175,229,442 €79,559,177 €509,577,238
Estonia €391,517,329 €52,642,230 €17,178,031 €461,337,590
Spain €8,054,864,822 €3,088,370,249 €129,465,396 €11,272,700,467
Finland €618,564,064 €801,836,655 €0 €1,420,400,719
France €5,394,547,990 €3,657,419,201 €1,175,205,564 €10,227,172,755
Greece €4,363,800,403 €770,082,816 €0 €5,133,883,219
Hungary €3,629,088,551 €640,427,395 €0 €4,269,515,946
Ireland €375,362,370 €372,362,370 €3,000,000 €750,724,740
Italy €6,930,542,469 €7,607,177,840 €0 €14,537,720,309
Lithuania €1,028,306,727 €120,186,352 €61,279,542 €1,209,772,621
Luxembourg €25,243,666 €25,243,666 €0 €50,487,332
Latvia €583,103,717 €70,210,559 €32,690,097 €686,004,373
Malta €112,000,000 €19,764,707 €0 €131,764,707
Netherlands €830,002,737 €728,844,717 €400,985,149 €1,959,832,603
Poland €10,007,397,937 €1,766,011,401 €0 €11,773,409,338
Portugal €6,853,387,865 €2,391,629,981 €0 €9,245,017,846
Romania €3,684,147,618 €649,920,063 €0 €4,334,067,681
Sweden €691,551,158 €691,551,158 €0 €1,383,102,316
Slovenia €755,699,370 €133,358,718 €0 €889,058,088
Slovakia €1,499,603,156 €264,635,856 €0 €1,764,239,012
United Kingdom €4,498,917,728 €4,050,113,275 €106,280,008 €8,655,311,011
  €76,653,748,222 €35,713,323,484 €3,729,646,857 €116,096,718,563

Data as at: 29/05/2013

* Private expenditure: any eligible expenditure contributing to the financing of operations whose origin is not the public budget, for example own expenditure from private bodies benefiting from ESF support.

For more details consult the ESF allocations database: It allows you to track the original ESF financial allocations (as decided in 2007) in each EU country. By selecting the country and, if desired, the Operational Programme, you can choose the programme priority of interest and display the amount of funding originally dedicated to it.