Latvia vs Slovenia: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP

Latvia
2.84 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Slovenia
2.23 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Latvia rank
1st
Slovenia rank
4th

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

  • Latvia
  • Slovenia
0123199420072021

How they compare

Latvia currently reports 2.84 Percentage of GDP against 2.23 Percentage of GDP in Slovenia, a difference of 0.61 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Latvia's figure about 1.3 times Slovenia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Slovenia ahead.

Latvia ranks 1st and Slovenia ranks 4th of 7 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Latvia averaged higher in 2 and Slovenia in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Latvia Slovenia Difference Ahead
1990s 1.21 Percentage of GDP 2.76 Percentage of GDP 1.55 Percentage of GDP Slovenia
2000s 1.55 Percentage of GDP 2.34 Percentage of GDP 0.79 Percentage of GDP Slovenia
2010s 2.08 Percentage of GDP 2.01 Percentage of GDP 0.0635 Percentage of GDP Latvia
2020s 2.71 Percentage of GDP 2.25 Percentage of GDP 0.46 Percentage of GDP Latvia

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, Latvia or Slovenia?
Latvia, at 2.84 Percentage of GDP against 2.23 Percentage of GDP in Slovenia as of 2021.
What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between Latvia and Slovenia?
0.61 Percentage of GDP, with Latvia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Latvia and Slovenia?
26 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2021.
How do Latvia and Slovenia rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
Latvia ranks 1st and Slovenia ranks 4th of 7 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.