FR · 2017 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
France, 2017
In 2017, France's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 0.9% compared to 2016, reaching 34.2.
France accounts for 122.6% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
France ranks 1st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.8% (from 33.6 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.