PT · 2021 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Portugal, 2021
In 2021, Portugal's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 2.4% compared to 2020, reaching 26.8.
Portugal accounts for 89.8% of the EU-27 total of 29.8.
Portugal 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 grown by 6.7% (from 25.1 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.