SE · 2023 · tps00098
Expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP
Sweden, 2023
In 2023, Sweden's expenditure on social protection as percentage of GDP increased by 0.5% compared to 2022, reaching 27.9.
Sweden accounts for 100.1% of the EU-27 total of 27.8.
Sweden 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 fallen by 2.9% (from 28.7 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tps00098, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.