IE · 2019 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2019
In 2019, Ireland's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP decreased by 1.0% compared to 2018, reaching 5.03.
Ireland accounts for 40.0% of the EU-27 total of 12.6.
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 31.8% (from 7.38 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.