RO · 2023 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Romania, 2023
In 2023, Romania's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 0.4% compared to 2022, reaching 16.6.
Romania accounts for 59.7% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
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 10.9% (from 15.0 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.