General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Portugal's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 7.8% compared to 2006, reaching 5.9%.

Portugal ranks 4th 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 9.2% (from 6.5% in 2002).

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