IE · 2016 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2016
In 2016, Ireland's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP increased by 0.9% compared to 2015, reaching 5.62.
Ireland accounts for 43.6% of the EU-27 total of 12.9.
Ireland ranks 27th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.