BG · 2018 · tps00108
Social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2018
In 2018, Bulgaria's social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP decreased by 5.0% compared to 2017, reaching 7.29.
Bulgaria accounts for 65.7% of the EU-27 total of 11.1.
Bulgaria ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 21.8% (from 9.32 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00108, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.