General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2005, Netherlands's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 2.9% compared to 2004, reaching 43.4%.

Netherlands 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 grown by 0.5% (from 43.2% in 2000).

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