EE · 2017 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Estonia, 2017
In 2017, Estonia's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 3.6% compared to 2016, reaching 15.6.
Estonia accounts for 56.1% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Estonia 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 grown by 5.1% (from 14.9 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.