General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, France's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 1.3% compared to 2006, reaching 7.6%.

France ranks 2nd out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.1% (from 7.3% in 2002).

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