IE · 2016 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2016
In 2016, Ireland's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 0.4% compared to 2015, reaching 15.6.
Ireland accounts for 55.2% of the EU-27 total of 28.3.
Ireland ranks 24th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.