PT · 2017 · tps00108
Social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP
Portugal, 2017
In 2017, Portugal's social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP decreased by 2.6% compared to 2016, reaching 12.0.
Portugal accounts for 107.7% of the EU-27 total of 11.1.
Portugal 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 8.1% (from 13.0 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00108, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.