IE · 2021 · tps00101
Expenditure on social protection by type
Ireland, 2021
In 2021, Ireland's expenditure on social protection by type increased by 13.5% compared to 2020, reaching 3.69.
Ireland accounts for 116.8% of the EU-27 total of 3.16.
Ireland ranks 4th 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 10.4% (from 4.12 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00101, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.