IE · 2022 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2022
In 2022, Ireland's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP decreased by 11.0% compared to 2021, reaching 3.90.
Ireland accounts for 31.9% of the EU-27 total of 12.2.
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 27.1% (from 5.35 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.