Bulgaria vs Spain: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP

Bulgaria
2.14 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Spain
2.9 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Bulgaria rank
13th
Spain rank
10th

Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Spain
0123198020002021

How they compare

Spain currently reports 2.9 Percentage of GDP against 2.14 Percentage of GDP in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.76 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.4 times Bulgaria's.

Across all 17 years both countries report, Spain has been ahead every year.

Bulgaria ranks 13th and Spain ranks 10th of 33 countries.

Spain has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Bulgaria Spain Difference Ahead
2000s 1.5 Percentage of GDP 2.36 Percentage of GDP 0.8594 Percentage of GDP Spain
2010s 1.68 Percentage of GDP 2.42 Percentage of GDP 0.7399 Percentage of GDP Spain
2020s 2.11 Percentage of GDP 2.98 Percentage of GDP 0.871 Percentage of GDP Spain

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp, Bulgaria or Spain?
Spain, at 2.9 Percentage of GDP against 2.14 Percentage of GDP in Bulgaria as of 2021.
What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between Bulgaria and Spain?
0.76 Percentage of GDP, with Spain ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and Spain?
17 years are reported by both, from 2005 to 2021.
How do Bulgaria and Spain rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
Bulgaria ranks 13th and Spain ranks 10th of 33 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP — Social expenditure. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP — Social expenditure
Unit
Percentage of GDP
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
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Coverage
43 places, 1,481 data points, 1980–2023
Last refreshed

The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. It covers 38 OECD countries and some accession countries for the period 1980-2021/23 and estimates for aggregates for 2022-24. A Social Expenditure Update can be found under www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/social-expenditure-database-socx.htm. The main social policy areas are as follows: Old age, Survivors, Incapacity-related benefits, Health, Family, Active labor market programmes, Unemployment, Housing, and Other social policy areas. This version also includes estimates of net total social spending for 2021 for 38 OECD countries. SOCX aggregated data as well as sources and methodology are described in The OECD SOCX Manual – 2019 edition- A guide to the OECD Social Expenditure Database.