General government expenditure by function

In 2016, Bulgaria's general government expenditure by function decreased by 5.7% compared to 2015, reaching 5.00.

Bulgaria accounts for 71.4% of the EU-27 total of 7.00.

Bulgaria ranks 20th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 22.0% (from 4.10 in 2011).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_sp110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.