BG · 2021 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2021
In 2021, Bulgaria's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP decreased by 3.8% compared to 2020, reaching 7.75.
Bulgaria accounts for 60.7% of the EU-27 total of 12.8.
Bulgaria ranks 23rd 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 6.7% (from 8.31 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.