ES · 2023 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Spain, 2023
In 2023, Spain's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP decreased by 0.5% compared to 2022, reaching 25.5.
Spain accounts for 91.5% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
Spain ranks 10th 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 8.2% (from 23.5 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.