Hashtags for all economic activities & functions of government in a convenient e-book


The Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) was developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and published by United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). It can be applied to government expense and the net acquisition of non-financial assets (outlays). COFOG has three levels of detail: Divisions, Groups, and Classes.

The divisions could be seen as the broad objectives of government, while the groups and classes detail the means by which these broad objectives are achieved.

The initials “CS” or “IS” follow the title of each class in parentheses to indicate whether the services produced by general government units and included in this class are collective or individual services, and thus whether individual and collective final consumption expenditure should be recorded in respective functions. This is in line with provisions in the European system of accounts 2010 para. 3.104 -3.107.

The description of the COFOG classification as published by the UNSD is reproduced here.

#cofog hashtags are systematically defined for each function of government as classified in the Classification of the Functions of Government.

A revision of the COFOG classifications is currently being prepared at Global Consultation on the Initial List of Issues for the Update of COFOG.

There are hashtags at two levels, for government divisions and classes.


Functions of government (#cofog)


#cofog division hashtags

A government division hashtag has the structure #COFOG01, which ends with the numeric division code 01, 02, 03, … until 10, as summarized in the tweet below.

In country specific function of government division hashtags the #COFOG01 is extended with a two character ISO 3166 - Country codes, for instance IN for India: #cofog01IN. The #ISO3166 code of most countries is in the side-navigation pane of this wiki.


#cofog class hashtags

There is a function of government class hashtag for over hundred classes in the COFOG classification. They have the form #cofognnnn, where nnnn is the COFOG class number. If you are not sure whether or not a topic belongs to a class, then check its detailed structure and explanatory notes.

The "worldwide" government class hashtags are listed at the top of this page and at Actor Atlas page with versions in nine other languages.

Per country a distinct hashtag is constructed for each function of government class by adding the ISO 3166 - Country codes. This is illustrated for Division 09 - Education in Nepal (picture taken from Nepal #cofog hashtags) :


#cofogNP hashtags for the classes in Division 09 - Education in Nepal

Similar hashtags are constructed for most countries as explained at Country hashtags and also illustrated for:



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