PT · 2021 · tps00108
Social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP
Portugal, 2021
In 2021, Portugal's social protection receipts by type as percentage of GDP decreased by 9.0% compared to 2020, reaching 13.0.
Portugal accounts for 100.9% of the EU-27 total of 12.9.
Portugal ranks 8th 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 5.9% (from 12.3 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00108, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.