General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Netherlands's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 1.6% compared to 2006, reaching 43.3%.

Netherlands ranks 14th 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 3.3% (from 44.8% in 2002).

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