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Proportion of total government spending on essential services, social protection

Name: Proportion of total government spending on essential services, social protection
Creator: United Nations SDG Global Database
Keywords: trend-research-200, un-sdg, social-protection-poverty-food-security, proportion, total, government, spending, essential, services, social

Compare proportion of total government spending on essential services, social protection across 47 countries using official UN SDG Global Database observations for 2024.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database•47 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

23.6%

Median: 25.2%

Countries Covered

47

with available data

Highest

Argentina

50.5%

Lowest

Uganda

0.1%

Top 5 Countries

1Argentina50.5%

2Luxembourg42.6%

3Spain41.8%

4San Marino41.6%

5Denmark41.5%

By Region

Europe40.4%(8 countries)

South America38.3%(3 countries)

Oceania29.9%(1 countries)

North America23.7%(2 countries)

Other18.8%(23 countries)

Key Findings

•47 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Argentina has the highest published value (50.4607 %).
•Uganda has the lowest published value (0.0732231 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.1%)High (50.5%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 23.6%)

Europe (8)

South America (3)

Oceania (1)

North America (2)

Other (23)

Asia (8)

Africa (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

Proportion of total government spending on essential services, social protection (%).

Values use UN SDG series SG_XPD_PROT, release 2026.Q2.G.01, one fixed 2024 reference year, unit Percentage, and the fixed selection Reporting Type: Global. Aggregates, missing/non-finite values, other dimensions, other attributes, and non-ISO geographies are excluded; MapTheory does not impute missing countries.

Methodology

UN SDG series SG_XPD_PROT; year 2024; unit PERCENT; dimensions {"Reporting Type": "G"}; attributes {"Nature": "C", "Units": "PERCENT"} Official UN SDG metadata for indicator 1.a.2.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Argentina	50.5%
2	Luxembourg	42.6%
3	Spain	41.8%
4	San Marino	41.6%
5	Denmark	41.5%
6	Austria	41.3%
7	Germany	41.3%
8	Switzerland	39.4%
9	Sweden	37.8%
10	Norway	37.6%
11	Brazil	36.1%
12	Mauritius	35.1%
13	Lebanon	33.3%
14	Belarus	31.5%
15	Albania	31.2%
16	Andorra	30.7%
17	Canada	30.5%
18	New Zealand	29.9%
19	Chile	28.5%
20	Türkiye	27.8%
21	Israel	26.9%
22	People's Republic of China	26.2%
23	Armenia	25.2%
24	Kyrgyzstan	25.2%
25	Mongolia	25.2%
26	Macao	24.5%
27	Georgia	22.2%
28	Paraguay	22.0%
29	Madagascar	20.9%
30	Thailand	19.1%
31	Guatemala	16.9%
32	Dominican Republic	15.4%
33	Philippines	14.1%
34	Tajikistan	14.0%
35	South Africa	13.0%
36	El Salvador	12.3%
37	United Arab Emirates	9.0%
38	Bahamas	7.9%
39	Nauru	7.7%
40	Indonesia	7.6%
41	Ethiopia	6.2%
42	Zambia	5.6%
43	Nicaragua	5.4%
44	Singapore	4.3%
45	Mozambique	0.6%
46	Somalia	0.3%
47	Uganda	0.1%

Showing 47 of 47 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2024).

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