Greece vs United Kingdom: Public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in)

Greece
1.69 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
United Kingdom
1.85 Percentage of GDP
in 2022
Greece rank
23rd
United Kingdom rank
20th

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

  • Greece
  • United Kingdom
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How they compare

United Kingdom currently reports 1.85 Percentage of GDP against 1.69 Percentage of GDP in Greece, a difference of 0.16 Percentage of GDP.

That makes United Kingdom's figure about 1.1 times Greece's.

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

Greece ranks 23rd and United Kingdom ranks 20th of 33 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Greece United Kingdom Difference Ahead
1980s 0.292 Percentage of GDP 2.1 Percentage of GDP 1.81 Percentage of GDP United Kingdom
1990s 0.8962 Percentage of GDP 2.06 Percentage of GDP 1.16 Percentage of GDP United Kingdom
2000s 0.8173 Percentage of GDP 2.89 Percentage of GDP 2.07 Percentage of GDP United Kingdom
2010s 1.35 Percentage of GDP 3.42 Percentage of GDP 2.07 Percentage of GDP United Kingdom
2020s 1.68 Percentage of GDP 2.21 Percentage of GDP 0.5305 Percentage of GDP United Kingdom

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), Greece or United Kingdom?
United Kingdom, at 1.85 Percentage of GDP against 1.69 Percentage of GDP in Greece as of 2022.
What is the difference in public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in) between Greece and United Kingdom?
0.16 Percentage of GDP, with United Kingdom ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Greece and United Kingdom?
42 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2021.
How do Greece and United Kingdom rank globally for public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in)?
Greece ranks 23rd and United Kingdom ranks 20th 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
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.