Public social expenditure

QoG code: oecd_socexpnd_t1a

Public social expenditure as a percentage of GDP

Dataset
Country Statistical Profiles
Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2024-12-17
Last updated by source
2024-12-17

Categories

Welfare Public Economy

Find this variable in

Standard Cross-section - 2025 Standard Time-series - 2025 Original dataset
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 29
Standard time-series 36
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2011-2018

Country coverage

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  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Germany, West
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea, South
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1980 to 2018.