BG · 2018 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2018
In 2018, Bulgaria's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 0.5% compared to 2017, reaching 16.9.
Bulgaria accounts for 61.1% of the EU-27 total of 27.7.
Bulgaria ranks 21st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 3.8% (from 17.6 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.