NL · 2023 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Netherlands, 2023
In 2023, Netherlands's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 3.0% compared to 2022, reaching 27.6.
Netherlands accounts for 99.1% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
Netherlands ranks 9th 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 1.5% (from 28.0 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.