General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Portugal's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 1.3% compared to 2006, reaching 14.9%.

Portugal 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 grown by 11.2% (from 13.4% in 2002).

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