RO · 2017 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Romania, 2017
In 2017, Romania's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 0.1% compared to 2016, reaching 14.9.
Romania accounts for 53.4% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Romania ranks 25th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.1% (from 14.7 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.