IE · 2023 · tps00101
Expenditure on social protection by type
Ireland, 2023
In 2023, Ireland's expenditure on social protection by type decreased by 2.5% compared to 2022, reaching 3.46.
Ireland accounts for 115.0% of the EU-27 total of 3.01.
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 14.1% (from 4.03 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00101, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.