IE · 2020 · tps00108
Social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP
Ireland, 2020
In 2020, Ireland's social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP increased by 10.7% compared to 2019, reaching 9.10.
Ireland accounts for 67.4% of the EU-27 total of 13.5.
Ireland ranks 19th 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 7.1% (from 9.80 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00108, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.