General government expenditure by function

In 2017, Romania's general government expenditure by function increased by 7.3% compared to 2016, reaching 4.40.

Romania accounts for 63.8% of the EU-27 total of 6.90.

Romania ranks 25th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 18.9% (from 3.70 in 2012).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_sp110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.