IE · 2017 · tps00108
Social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2017
In 2017, Ireland's social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP decreased by 8.3% compared to 2016, reaching 9.01.
Ireland accounts for 81.1% of the EU-27 total of 11.1.
Ireland ranks 13th 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 43.7% (from 16.0 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00108, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.