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Projections of public expenditure on pensions

Compare projections of public expenditure on pensions across 39 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 OECD reference slice.

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)•39 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
9.0Percentage of GDP
Median: 8.7Percentage of GDP
Countries Covered
39
with available data
Highest
Italy
16.1Percentage of GDP
Lowest
South Korea
2.0Percentage of GDP
Top 5 Countries
1Italy16.1Percentage of GDP
2Austria14.5Percentage of GDP
3France14.2Percentage of GDP
4Spain13.7Percentage of GDP
5Finland13.2Percentage of GDP
By Region
Europe10.1Percentage of GDP(29 countries)
North America6.3Percentage of GDP(2 countries)
South America6.2Percentage of GDP(2 countries)
Other6.2Percentage of GDP(2 countries)
Asia5.6Percentage of GDP(2 countries)
Key Findings
  • •39 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage of GDP observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
  • •Italy has the highest published value (16.1 Percentage of GDP).
  • •South Korea has the lowest published value (2 Percentage of GDP).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (2.0Percentage of GDP)High (16.1Percentage of GDP)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 9.0Percentage of GDP)

Europe (29)
North America (2)
South America (2)
Other (2)
Asia (2)
Oceania (2)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Pensions at a glance: Projections of public expenditure on pensions. Unit: Percentage of GDP. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 OECD slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Pensions at a glance: Projections of public expenditure on pensions. Unit: Percentage of GDP. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

Full Data

Rank ↑Country ↕Value ↕
1Italy16.1Percentage of GDP
2Austria14.5Percentage of GDP
3France14.2Percentage of GDP
4Spain13.7Percentage of GDP
5Finland13.2Percentage of GDP
6Greece13.2Percentage of GDP
7Belgium13.1Percentage of GDP
8Portugal12.8Percentage of GDP
9Norway11.5Percentage of GDP
10Poland11.1Percentage of GDP
11Bulgaria10.8Percentage of GDP
12Germany10.5Percentage of GDP
13Romania10.5Percentage of GDP
14Croatia10.4Percentage of GDP
15Slovenia10.2Percentage of GDP
16Slovakia9.6Percentage of GDP
17Luxembourg9.3Percentage of GDP
18Japan9.1Percentage of GDP
19Denmark8.9Percentage of GDP
20Cyprus8.7Percentage of GDP
21Brazil8.5Percentage of GDP
22United Kingdom8.2Percentage of GDP
23Czech Republic7.9Percentage of GDP
24Sweden7.9Percentage of GDP
25Estonia7.8Percentage of GDP
26Hungary7.8Percentage of GDP
27Lithuania7.3Percentage of GDP
28Canada7.2Percentage of GDP
29Latvia7.0Percentage of GDP
30Netherlands6.8Percentage of GDP
31Costa Rica6.4Percentage of GDP
32Switzerland6.4Percentage of GDP
33Malta6.0Percentage of GDP
34New Zealand5.3Percentage of GDP
35United States of America5.3Percentage of GDP
36Chile3.9Percentage of GDP
37Ireland3.7Percentage of GDP
38Australia2.5Percentage of GDP
39South Korea2.0Percentage of GDP
Showing 39 of 39 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2025).

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