BG · 2017 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2017
In 2017, Bulgaria's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP decreased by 3.9% compared to 2016, reaching 7.99.
Bulgaria accounts for 63.0% of the EU-27 total of 12.7.
Bulgaria ranks 22nd 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 0.4% (from 8.02 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.