General government expenditure by function (COFOG)

In 2024, the EU-27 figure for general government expenditure by function (COFOG) was 19.6%.

That is a 2.1% rose versus 2023 (19.2%).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 2.1% higher.

Across member states, Finland reported the highest value (26.5%, 2024) and Ireland the lowest (7.8%, 2024) — a ratio of 3.4× 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.