economic2021

Public expenditure on pensions (% of GDP)

Compare public expenditure on pensions (% of gdp) across 38 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2021 official-source slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
8.1Percentage of GDP
Median: 7.4Percentage of GDP
Countries Covered
38
with available data
Highest
Greece
16.2Percentage of GDP
Lowest
Iceland
2.9Percentage of GDP
Top 5 Countries
1Greece16.2Percentage of GDP
2Italy16.1Percentage of GDP
3Austria14.0Percentage of GDP
4France13.4Percentage of GDP
5Portugal12.9Percentage of GDP
By Region
Key Findings
  • 38 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage of GDP observation in the fixed 2021 slice.
  • Greece has the highest published value (16.2 Percentage of GDP).
  • Iceland has the lowest published value (2.9 Percentage of GDP).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (2.9Percentage of GDP)High (16.2Percentage of GDP)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 8.1Percentage of GDP)

About This Statistic

Pensions at a glance: 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 2021 source slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other period or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

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

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Greece16.2Percentage of GDP
2Italy16.1Percentage of GDP
3Austria14.0Percentage of GDP
4France13.4Percentage of GDP
5Portugal12.9Percentage of GDP
6Spain12.3Percentage of GDP
7Finland12.2Percentage of GDP
8Poland11.2Percentage of GDP
9Germany10.8Percentage of GDP
10Belgium10.7Percentage of GDP
11Slovenia10.6Percentage of GDP
12Japan9.2Percentage of GDP
13Luxembourg8.6Percentage of GDP
14Czech Republic8.2Percentage of GDP
15Sweden8.0Percentage of GDP
16Hungary7.6Percentage of GDP
17Denmark7.5Percentage of GDP
18Latvia7.5Percentage of GDP
19Slovakia7.4Percentage of GDP
20United States of America7.3Percentage of GDP
21United Kingdom7.1Percentage of GDP
22Estonia6.8Percentage of GDP
23Switzerland6.6Percentage of GDP
24Lithuania6.5Percentage of GDP
25Norway6.5Percentage of GDP
26Netherlands6.4Percentage of GDP
27Türkiye6.1Percentage of GDP
28Canada5.9Percentage of GDP
29Colombia5.7Percentage of GDP
30Mexico5.3Percentage of GDP
31Costa Rica5.1Percentage of GDP
32New Zealand5.1Percentage of GDP
33Israel4.5Percentage of GDP
34South Korea3.8Percentage of GDP
35Chile3.7Percentage of GDP
36Australia3.4Percentage of GDP
37Iceland2.9Percentage of GDP
38Ireland2.9Percentage of GDP
Showing 38 of 38 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2021).

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