MT · 2020 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Malta, 2020
In 2020, Malta's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 29.1% compared to 2019, reaching 18.6.
Malta accounts for 59.0% of the EU-27 total of 31.5.
Malta ranks 23rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 14.1% (from 16.3 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.