DE · 2017 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Germany, 2017
In 2017, Germany's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP decreased by 0.9% compared to 2016, reaching 11.6.
Germany accounts for 91.4% of the EU-27 total of 12.7.
Germany ranks 11th 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 0.6% (from 11.7 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.