General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Portugal's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) increased by 1.4% compared to 2006, reaching 7.1%.

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 grown by 7.6% (from 6.6% in 2002).

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