DE · 2021 · tps00101
Expenditure on social protection by type
Germany, 2021
In 2021, Germany's expenditure on social protection by type decreased by 2.5% compared to 2020, reaching 3.58.
Germany accounts for 113.3% of the EU-27 total of 3.16.
Germany ranks 5th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 5.8% (from 3.80 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00101, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.