ES · 2018 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Spain, 2018
In 2018, Spain's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 1.1% compared to 2017, reaching 23.5.
Spain accounts for 85.1% of the EU-27 total of 27.7.
Spain ranks 12th 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 8.9% (from 25.8 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.