Lithuania vs Poland: Public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in)

Lithuania
2.81 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Poland
3.33 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Lithuania rank
4th
Poland rank
1st

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

  • Lithuania
  • Poland
1234199020052021

How they compare

Poland currently reports 3.33 Percentage of GDP against 2.81 Percentage of GDP in Lithuania, a difference of 0.52 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Poland's figure about 1.2 times Lithuania's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 26 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Poland ahead.

Lithuania ranks 4th and Poland ranks 1st of 7 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Lithuania averaged higher in 3 and Poland in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Lithuania Poland Difference Ahead
1990s 1.11 Percentage of GDP 0.9792 Percentage of GDP 0.1347 Percentage of GDP Lithuania
2000s 1.65 Percentage of GDP 1.19 Percentage of GDP 0.4591 Percentage of GDP Lithuania
2010s 1.97 Percentage of GDP 1.89 Percentage of GDP 0.0747 Percentage of GDP Lithuania
2020s 2.91 Percentage of GDP 3.52 Percentage of GDP 0.614 Percentage of GDP Poland

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), Lithuania or Poland?
Poland, at 3.33 Percentage of GDP against 2.81 Percentage of GDP in Lithuania as of 2021.
What is the difference in public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in) between Lithuania and Poland?
0.52 Percentage of GDP, with Poland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Lithuania and Poland?
26 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2021.
How do Lithuania and Poland rank globally for public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in)?
Lithuania ranks 4th and Poland ranks 1st of 7 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
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.