Netherlands vs Norway: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP

Netherlands
2.78 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Norway
4.04 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Netherlands rank
2nd
Norway rank
2nd

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

  • Netherlands
  • Norway
0246198020002021

How they compare

Norway currently reports 4.04 Percentage of GDP against 2.78 Percentage of GDP in Netherlands, a difference of 1.26 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Norway's figure about 1.5 times Netherlands's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Netherlands ahead.

Netherlands ranks 2nd and Norway ranks 2nd of 7 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, Netherlands averaged higher in 1 and Norway in 4.

Head to head by decade

Decade Netherlands Norway Difference Ahead
1980s 5.77 Percentage of GDP 3.83 Percentage of GDP 1.94 Percentage of GDP Netherlands
1990s 4.61 Percentage of GDP 4.72 Percentage of GDP 0.1149 Percentage of GDP Norway
2000s 2.75 Percentage of GDP 4.53 Percentage of GDP 1.78 Percentage of GDP Norway
2010s 2.77 Percentage of GDP 4.1 Percentage of GDP 1.33 Percentage of GDP Norway
2020s 2.89 Percentage of GDP 4.44 Percentage of GDP 1.54 Percentage of GDP Norway

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, Netherlands or Norway?
Norway, at 4.04 Percentage of GDP against 2.78 Percentage of GDP in Netherlands as of 2021.
What is the difference in public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp between Netherlands and Norway?
1.26 Percentage of GDP, with Norway ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Netherlands and Norway?
36 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2021.
How do Netherlands and Norway rank globally for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
Netherlands ranks 2nd and Norway ranks 2nd 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.