BG · 2017 · tps00108
Social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP
Bulgaria, 2017
In 2017, Bulgaria's social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP decreased by 10.2% compared to 2016, reaching 7.67.
Bulgaria accounts for 69.0% of the EU-27 total of 11.1.
Bulgaria ranks 17th 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 14.8% (from 9.00 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00108, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.