PT · 2019 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Portugal, 2019
In 2019, Portugal's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 0.2% compared to 2018, reaching 24.0.
Portugal accounts for 86.3% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
Portugal ranks 12th 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 10.7% (from 26.9 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.