IE · 2017 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2017
In 2017, Ireland's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP decreased by 4.8% compared to 2016, reaching 5.35.
Ireland accounts for 42.2% of the EU-27 total of 12.7.
Ireland ranks 27th 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 34.2% (from 8.13 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.