Canada vs United States: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP
Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP over time
- Canada
- United States
How they compare
United States currently reports 0.813 Percentage of GDP against 0.627 Percentage of GDP in Canada, a difference of 0.186 Percentage of GDP.
That makes United States's figure about 1.3 times Canada's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 43 shared years of data; in 1980 it was United States ahead.
Canada ranks 29th and United States ranks 27th of 33 countries.
Across the 5 decades both report, Canada averaged higher in 1 and United States in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | United States | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.9011 Percentage of GDP | 0.9991 Percentage of GDP | 0.098 Percentage of GDP | United States |
| 1990s | 1.14 Percentage of GDP | 1.01 Percentage of GDP | 0.1337 Percentage of GDP | Canada |
| 2000s | 0.9198 Percentage of GDP | 1 Percentage of GDP | 0.0848 Percentage of GDP | United States |
| 2010s | 0.7778 Percentage of GDP | 1.13 Percentage of GDP | 0.3489 Percentage of GDP | United States |
| 2020s | 0.6917 Percentage of GDP | 0.89 Percentage of GDP | 0.1983 Percentage of GDP | United States |
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, Canada or United States?
- United States, at 0.813 Percentage of GDP against 0.627 Percentage of GDP in Canada as of 2023.
- What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between Canada and United States?
- 0.186 Percentage of GDP, with United States ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and United States?
- 43 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2022.
- How do Canada and United States rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
- Canada ranks 29th and United States ranks 27th 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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About this data
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.