Colombia vs Costa Rica: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP

Colombia
0.092 Percentage of GDP
in 2023
Costa Rica
0.776 Percentage of GDP
in 2022
Colombia rank
31st
Costa Rica rank
28th

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

  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
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How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 0.776 Percentage of GDP against 0.092 Percentage of GDP in Colombia, a difference of 0.684 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 8.4 times Colombia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 12 shared years of data; in 2011 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Colombia ranks 31st and Costa Rica ranks 28th of 33 countries.

Costa Rica has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Colombia Costa Rica Difference Ahead
2010s 0.0623 Percentage of GDP 0.1636 Percentage of GDP 0.1012 Percentage of GDP Costa Rica
2020s 0.091 Percentage of GDP 0.5507 Percentage of GDP 0.4597 Percentage of GDP Costa Rica

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, Colombia or Costa Rica?
Costa Rica, at 0.776 Percentage of GDP against 0.092 Percentage of GDP in Colombia as of 2022.
What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between Colombia and Costa Rica?
0.684 Percentage of GDP, with Costa Rica ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Colombia and Costa Rica?
12 years are reported by both, from 2011 to 2022.
How do Colombia and Costa Rica rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
Colombia ranks 31st and Costa Rica ranks 28th 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
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
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.