IE · 2019 · tps00101
Expenditure on social protection by type
Ireland, 2019
In 2019, Ireland's expenditure on social protection by type increased by 1.0% compared to 2018, reaching 4.07.
Ireland accounts for 126.8% of the EU-27 total of 3.21.
Ireland ranks 3rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.6% (from 3.89 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00101, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.