BG · 2022 · tps00108
Social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2022
In 2022, Bulgaria's social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP decreased by 3.8% compared to 2021, reaching 9.58.
Bulgaria accounts for 80.5% of the EU-27 total of 11.9.
Bulgaria ranks 15th 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 24.9% (from 7.67 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00108, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.