Costa Rica vs Peru: Public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in)

Costa Rica
1.32 Percentage of GDP
in 2022
Peru
1.14 Percentage of GDP
in 2023
Costa Rica rank
29th
Peru rank
31st

Public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in) over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Peru
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How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 1.32 Percentage of GDP against 1.14 Percentage of GDP in Peru, a difference of 0.18 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.2 times Peru's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 11 shared years of data; in 2012 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 29th and Peru ranks 31st of 33 countries.

Peru has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Costa Rica Peru Difference Ahead
2010s 0.9846 Percentage of GDP 1.02 Percentage of GDP 0.0338 Percentage of GDP Peru
2020s 1.04 Percentage of GDP 1.14 Percentage of GDP 0.0977 Percentage of GDP Peru

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in), Costa Rica or Peru?
Costa Rica, at 1.32 Percentage of GDP against 1.14 Percentage of GDP in Peru as of 2022.
What is the difference in public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in) between Costa Rica and Peru?
0.18 Percentage of GDP, with Costa Rica ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Peru?
11 years are reported by both, from 2012 to 2022.
How do Costa Rica and Peru rank globally for public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in)?
Costa Rica ranks 29th and Peru ranks 31st of 33 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in kind) 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 family by type of expenditure (cash and in kind) in % GDP — Social expenditure
Unit
Percentage of GDP
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
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Coverage
43 places, 1,481 data points, 1980–2023
Last refreshed

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.