MT · 2017 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Malta, 2017
In 2017, Malta's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 8.2% compared to 2016, reaching 14.8.
Malta accounts for 53.0% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Malta ranks 26th 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 20.8% (from 18.7 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.