IT · 2019 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Italy, 2019
In 2019, Italy's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 1.1% compared to 2018, reaching 29.1.
Italy accounts for 104.5% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
Italy ranks 6th 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 1.4% (from 29.5 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.