Greece vs Japan: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP

Greece
1.24 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Japan
1.23 Percentage of GDP
in 2022
Greece rank
23rd
Japan rank
24th

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

  • Greece
  • Japan
0.511.52198020012022

How they compare

Greece currently reports 1.24 Percentage of GDP against 1.23 Percentage of GDP in Japan, a difference of 0.01 Percentage of GDP.

Across all 42 years both countries report, Greece has been ahead every year.

Greece ranks 23rd and Japan ranks 24th of 33 countries.

Greece has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Greece Japan Difference Ahead
1980s 1.56 Percentage of GDP 0.5874 Percentage of GDP 0.968 Percentage of GDP Greece
1990s 0.9136 Percentage of GDP 0.6127 Percentage of GDP 0.3009 Percentage of GDP Greece
2000s 1.49 Percentage of GDP 0.7344 Percentage of GDP 0.7581 Percentage of GDP Greece
2010s 1.61 Percentage of GDP 1 Percentage of GDP 0.6064 Percentage of GDP Greece
2020s 1.29 Percentage of GDP 1.21 Percentage of GDP 0.082 Percentage of GDP Greece

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, Greece or Japan?
Greece, at 1.24 Percentage of GDP against 1.23 Percentage of GDP in Japan as of 2021.
What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between Greece and Japan?
0.01 Percentage of GDP, with Greece ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Greece and Japan?
42 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2021.
How do Greece and Japan rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
Greece ranks 23rd and Japan ranks 24th 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.