BG · 2023 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2023
In 2023, Bulgaria's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP increased by 13.1% compared to 2022, reaching 9.48.
Bulgaria accounts for 77.1% of the EU-27 total of 12.3.
Bulgaria ranks 15th 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 20.5% (from 7.87 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.