IE · 2020 · tps00103
Expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2020
In 2020, Ireland's expenditure on pensions as percentage of GDP decreased by 2.2% compared to 2019, reaching 4.92.
Ireland accounts for 36.4% of the EU-27 total of 13.5.
Ireland ranks 27th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 11.7% (from 5.57 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00103, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.