SK · 2017 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Slovakia, 2017
In 2017, Slovakia's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 0.8% compared to 2016, reaching 18.1.
Slovakia accounts for 64.9% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Slovakia ranks 19th 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 2.0% (from 17.8 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.