IT · 2022 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Italy, 2022
In 2022, Italy's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 5.5% compared to 2021, reaching 29.7.
Italy accounts for 106.5% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Italy ranks 5th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 3.3% (from 28.7 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.