Costa Rica vs Ireland: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP
Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP over time
- Costa Rica
- Ireland
How they compare
Ireland currently reports 1.16 Percentage of GDP against 0.776 Percentage of GDP in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.384 Percentage of GDP.
That makes Ireland's figure about 1.5 times Costa Rica's.
Across all 11 years both countries report, Ireland has been ahead every year.
Costa Rica ranks 28th and Ireland ranks 25th of 33 countries.
Ireland has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Costa Rica | Ireland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.1636 Percentage of GDP | 1.68 Percentage of GDP | 1.52 Percentage of GDP | Ireland |
| 2020s | 0.438 Percentage of GDP | 1.26 Percentage of GDP | 0.8225 Percentage of GDP | Ireland |
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, Costa Rica or Ireland?
- Ireland, at 1.16 Percentage of GDP against 0.776 Percentage of GDP in Costa Rica as of 2021.
- What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between Costa Rica and Ireland?
- 0.384 Percentage of GDP, with Ireland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Ireland?
- 11 years are reported by both, from 2011 to 2021.
- How do Costa Rica and Ireland rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
- Costa Rica ranks 28th and Ireland ranks 25th 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.