BG · 2017 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2017
In 2017, Bulgaria's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 2.9% compared to 2016, reaching 16.8.
Bulgaria accounts for 60.3% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Bulgaria ranks 21st 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 2.2% (from 16.5 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.