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

Costa Rica
0.776 Percentage of GDP
in 2022
Romania
1.09 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Costa Rica rank
28th
Romania rank
26th

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

  • Costa Rica
  • Romania
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How they compare

Romania currently reports 1.09 Percentage of GDP against 0.776 Percentage of GDP in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.314 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Romania's figure about 1.4 times Costa Rica's.

Across all 11 years both countries report, Romania has been ahead every year.

Costa Rica ranks 28th and Romania ranks 26th of 33 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Costa Rica Romania Difference Ahead
2010s 0.1636 Percentage of GDP 1.27 Percentage of GDP 1.1 Percentage of GDP Romania
2020s 0.438 Percentage of GDP 1.13 Percentage of GDP 0.6925 Percentage of GDP Romania

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 Romania?
Romania, at 1.09 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 Romania?
0.314 Percentage of GDP, with Romania ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Romania?
11 years are reported by both, from 2011 to 2021.
How do Costa Rica and Romania rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
Costa Rica ranks 28th and Romania ranks 26th 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
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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.