RO · 2018 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Romania, 2018
In 2018, Romania's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 0.7% compared to 2017, reaching 15.0.
Romania accounts for 54.2% of the EU-27 total of 27.7.
Romania 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 fallen by 0.1% (from 15.0 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.