General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Germany's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 1.6% compared to 2006, reaching 6.2%.

Germany ranks 12th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 6.1% (from 6.6% in 2002).

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