HU · 2019 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Hungary, 2019
In 2019, Hungary's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 5.7% compared to 2018, reaching 16.5.
Hungary accounts for 59.4% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
Hungary ranks 21st 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 16.1% (from 19.7 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.