MT · 2023 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Malta, 2023
In 2023, Malta's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 10.4% compared to 2022, reaching 13.2.
Malta accounts for 47.5% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
Malta ranks 26th 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 7.0% (from 14.2 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.