Bulgaria vs Czechia: Public expenditure on old-age and survivors cash benefits in % GDP

Bulgaria
8.9 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Czechia
8.19 Percentage of GDP
in 2021
Bulgaria rank
11th
Czechia rank
14th

Public expenditure on old-age and survivors cash benefits in % GDP over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Czechia
02468199020052021

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 8.9 Percentage of GDP against 8.19 Percentage of GDP in Czechia, a difference of 0.71 Percentage of GDP.

That makes Bulgaria's figure about 1.1 times Czechia's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 17 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 11th and Czechia ranks 14th of 33 countries.

Bulgaria has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Bulgaria Czechia Difference Ahead
2000s 7.16 Percentage of GDP 7 Percentage of GDP 0.1594 Percentage of GDP Bulgaria
2010s 8.19 Percentage of GDP 8.03 Percentage of GDP 0.1594 Percentage of GDP Bulgaria
2020s 8.7 Percentage of GDP 8.42 Percentage of GDP 0.2775 Percentage of GDP Bulgaria

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher public expenditure on old-age and survivors cash benefits in % gdp, Bulgaria or Czechia?
Bulgaria, at 8.9 Percentage of GDP against 8.19 Percentage of GDP in Czechia as of 2021.
What is the difference in public expenditure on old-age and survivors cash benefits in % gdp between Bulgaria and Czechia?
0.71 Percentage of GDP, with Bulgaria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and Czechia?
17 years are reported by both, from 2005 to 2021.
How do Bulgaria and Czechia rank globally for public expenditure on old-age and survivors cash benefits in % gdp?
Bulgaria ranks 11th and Czechia ranks 14th of 33 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Public expenditure on old-age and survivors 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 old-age and survivors 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.