BG · 2022 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2022
In 2022, Bulgaria's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP increased by 8.1% compared to 2021, reaching 8.38.
Bulgaria accounts for 68.6% of the EU-27 total of 12.2.
Bulgaria ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.9% (from 7.99 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.