CY · 2022 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Cyprus, 2022
In 2022, Cyprus's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 4.7% compared to 2021, reaching 20.6.
Cyprus accounts for 73.9% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Cyprus ranks 17th 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 12.7% (from 18.3 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.