HU · 2021 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Hungary, 2021
In 2021, Hungary's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 2.9% compared to 2020, reaching 17.6.
Hungary accounts for 59.2% of the EU-27 total of 29.8.
Hungary ranks 23rd 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 5.8% (from 18.7 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.