General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Portugal's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 7.7% compared to 2006, reaching 1.2%.

Portugal ranks 17th 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 7.7% (from 1.3% in 2002).

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