ES · 2022 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Spain, 2022
In 2022, Spain's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 8.3% compared to 2021, reaching 25.6.
Spain accounts for 91.8% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Spain ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 10.0% (from 23.3 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.