IT · 2021 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Italy, 2021
In 2021, Italy's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 8.0% compared to 2020, reaching 31.4.
Italy accounts for 105.4% of the EU-27 total of 29.8.
Italy ranks 4th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 8.4% (from 29.0 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.