RO · 2022 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Romania, 2022
In 2022, Romania's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 0.8% compared to 2021, reaching 16.6.
Romania accounts for 59.3% of the EU-27 total of 27.9.
Romania ranks 24th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 11.2% (from 14.9 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.