BG · 2019 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2019
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
16.6
Bulgaria, 2019
▼ 1.5% vs 2018 (16.9)
Analysis
In 2019, Bulgaria's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 1.5% compared to 2018, reaching 16.6.
Bulgaria accounts for 59.9% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
Bulgaria ranks 20th 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 9.5% (from 18.4 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.
Rank in EU-27 · 2019
#20 of 27
% of EU-27 total · 2019
59.9%
EU-27: 27.8
Bulgaria timeline (last 15 years)
2012 2023
Source:
Eurostat · tps00098