IE · 2023 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2023
In 2023, Ireland's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP increased by 8.7% compared to 2022, reaching 4.24.
Ireland accounts for 34.5% of the EU-27 total of 12.3.
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 16.5% (from 5.08 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.