General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2008, Croatia's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 7.8% compared to 2007, reaching 5.9%.

Croatia ranks 16th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 4.8% (from 6.2% in 2003).

Source: Eurostat dataset gov_10a_exp, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.