France vs Portugal: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP

France
1.84 Percentage of GDP
in 2022
Portugal
1.96 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
France rank
20th
Portugal rank
17th

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

  • France
  • Portugal
0123198020012022

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 1.96 Percentage of GDP against 1.84 Percentage of GDP in France, a difference of 0.12 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Portugal's figure about 1.1 times France's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1980 it was France ahead.

France ranks 20th and Portugal ranks 17th of 33 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, France averaged higher in 1 and Portugal in 4.

Head to head by decade

Decade France Portugal Difference Ahead
1980s 2.74 Percentage of GDP 2.08 Percentage of GDP 0.6534 Percentage of GDP France
1990s 2.07 Percentage of GDP 2.37 Percentage of GDP 0.3068 Percentage of GDP Portugal
2000s 1.69 Percentage of GDP 2.14 Percentage of GDP 0.4492 Percentage of GDP Portugal
2010s 1.67 Percentage of GDP 1.8 Percentage of GDP 0.1276 Percentage of GDP Portugal
2020s 1.87 Percentage of GDP 1.98 Percentage of GDP 0.112 Percentage of GDP Portugal

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, France or Portugal?
Portugal, at 1.96 Percentage of GDP against 1.84 Percentage of GDP in France as of 2021.
What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between France and Portugal?
0.12 Percentage of GDP, with Portugal ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for France and Portugal?
42 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2021.
How do France and Portugal rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
France ranks 20th and Portugal ranks 17th 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
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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.