Iceland vs Poland: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP
Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP over time
- Iceland
- Poland
How they compare
Iceland currently reports 3.36 Percentage of GDP against 1.96 Percentage of GDP in Poland, a difference of 1.4 Percentage of GDP.
That makes Iceland's figure about 1.7 times Poland's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Poland ahead.
Iceland ranks 4th and Poland ranks 6th of 33 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Iceland averaged higher in 2 and Poland in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Iceland | Poland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1.66 Percentage of GDP | 5.23 Percentage of GDP | 3.57 Percentage of GDP | Poland |
| 2000s | 2.37 Percentage of GDP | 2.97 Percentage of GDP | 0.5959 Percentage of GDP | Poland |
| 2010s | 2.74 Percentage of GDP | 2.28 Percentage of GDP | 0.462 Percentage of GDP | Iceland |
| 2020s | 3.44 Percentage of GDP | 1.99 Percentage of GDP | 1.44 Percentage of GDP | Iceland |
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, Iceland or Poland?
- Iceland, at 3.36 Percentage of GDP against 1.96 Percentage of GDP in Poland as of 2021.
- What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between Iceland and Poland?
- 1.4 Percentage of GDP, with Iceland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Iceland and Poland?
- 32 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2021.
- How do Iceland and Poland rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
- Iceland ranks 4th and Poland ranks 6th 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.