IE · 2022 · tps00101
Expenditure on social protection by type
Ireland, 2022
In 2022, Ireland's expenditure on social protection by type decreased by 3.8% compared to 2021, reaching 3.55.
Ireland accounts for 114.5% of the EU-27 total of 3.10.
Ireland ranks 6th 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 14.5% (from 4.15 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00101, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.