General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2024, the EU-27 figure for general government expenditure by function (COFOG) was 1.5%.

That is a 15.4% rose versus 2023 (1.3%).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 25.0% higher.

Across member states, Estonia reported the highest value (3.7%, 2024) and Ireland the lowest (0.1%, 2024) — a ratio of 37.0× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset gov_10a_exp; every value links back to the canonical source.