RO · 2020 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Romania, 2020
In 2020, Romania's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 16.3% compared to 2019, reaching 17.8.
Romania accounts for 56.5% of the EU-27 total of 31.5.
Romania 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 grown by 21.9% (from 14.6 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.