IT · 2017 · tps00101
Expenditure on social protection by type
Italy, 2017
In 2017, Italy's expenditure on social protection by type decreased by 2.8% compared to 2016, reaching 2.10.
Italy accounts for 62.7% of the EU-27 total of 3.35.
Italy ranks 11th 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 12.5% (from 2.40 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00101, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.