FR · 2019 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
France, 2019
In 2019, France's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 0.7% compared to 2018, reaching 33.5.
France accounts for 120.5% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
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 fallen by 1.9% (from 34.1 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.