General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2007, Romania's general government expenditure by function (COFOG) decreased by 4.9% compared to 2006, reaching 3.9%.

Romania ranks 24th 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 2.5% (from 4.0% in 2002).

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