MT · 2021 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Malta, 2021
In 2021, Malta's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 9.8% compared to 2020, reaching 16.8.
Malta accounts for 56.2% of the EU-27 total of 29.8.
Malta ranks 25th 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 4.1% (from 16.1 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.