Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP in Lithuania

Lithuania: Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP was 2.17 Percentage of GDP in 2021. ▲ Rising

Latest (2021)
2.17 Percentage of GDP
Change on year
down 8.2%
World rank
5th
of 7 countries
All-time high
2.84 Percentage of GDP
in 2009
All-time low
1.52 Percentage of GDP
in 1997
Years of data
26
1996–2021

Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP in Lithuania, 1996–2021

01231996200820211996: 1.6 Percentage of GDP1997: 1.5 Percentage of GDP1998: 1.6 Percentage of GDP1999: 1.9 Percentage of GDP2000: 1.9 Percentage of GDP2001: 1.7 Percentage of GDP2002: 1.7 Percentage of GDP2003: 1.7 Percentage of GDP2004: 1.7 Percentage of GDP2005: 1.8 Percentage of GDP2006: 1.8 Percentage of GDP2007: 2 Percentage of GDP2008: 2.3 Percentage of GDP2009: 2.8 Percentage of GDP2010: 2.3 Percentage of GDP2011: 2 Percentage of GDP2012: 1.9 Percentage of GDP2013: 1.8 Percentage of GDP2014: 1.8 Percentage of GDP2015: 2 Percentage of GDP2016: 2 Percentage of GDP2017: 2.1 Percentage of GDP2018: 2.1 Percentage of GDP2019: 2.1 Percentage of GDP2020: 2.4 Percentage of GDP2021: 2.2 Percentage of GDP

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of GDP.

Analysis

Lithuania recorded 2.17 Percentage of GDP for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp in 2021.

The figure is down 8.2% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp in Lithuania peaked at 2.84 Percentage of GDP in 2009 and was at its lowest, 1.52 Percentage of GDP, in 1997.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.

Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP in Lithuania, year by year

Annual values for Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP — Social expenditure in Lithuania, 1996 to 2021.
Year Percentage of GDP Change
1996 1.6 Percentage of GDP
1997 1.52 Percentage of GDP -5.1%
1998 1.63 Percentage of GDP +7.1%
1999 1.85 Percentage of GDP +13.6%
2000 1.87 Percentage of GDP +0.7%
2001 1.71 Percentage of GDP -8.2%
2002 1.66 Percentage of GDP -3.2%
2003 1.67 Percentage of GDP +0.5%
2004 1.74 Percentage of GDP +4.4%
2005 1.77 Percentage of GDP +1.8%
2006 1.84 Percentage of GDP +3.9%
2007 2.04 Percentage of GDP +11.0%
2008 2.31 Percentage of GDP +13.0%
2009 2.84 Percentage of GDP +23.1%
2010 2.27 Percentage of GDP -20.0%
2011 1.96 Percentage of GDP -13.9%
2012 1.91 Percentage of GDP -2.3%
2013 1.82 Percentage of GDP -4.8%
2014 1.83 Percentage of GDP +0.4%
2015 2 Percentage of GDP +9.3%
2016 2.04 Percentage of GDP +2.1%
2017 2.06 Percentage of GDP +0.8%
2018 2.12 Percentage of GDP +3.3%
2019 2.1 Percentage of GDP -1.0%
2020 2.36 Percentage of GDP +12.2%
2021 2.17 Percentage of GDP -8.2%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 1.65 Percentage of GDP 1.52 Percentage of GDP 1.85 Percentage of GDP 4
2000s 1.95 Percentage of GDP 1.66 Percentage of GDP 2.84 Percentage of GDP 10
2010s 2.01 Percentage of GDP 1.82 Percentage of GDP 2.27 Percentage of GDP 10
2020s 2.26 Percentage of GDP 2.17 Percentage of GDP 2.36 Percentage of GDP 2

Countries ranked near Lithuania

  1. 2 Netherlands 2.78 Percentage of GDP compare
  2. 2 Norway 4.04 Percentage of GDP compare
  3. 3 Belgium 3.38 Percentage of GDP compare
  4. 3 Estonia 2.42 Percentage of GDP compare
  5. 4 Iceland 3.36 Percentage of GDP compare
  6. 4 Slovenia 2.23 Percentage of GDP compare
  7. 5 Sweden 3.25 Percentage of GDP compare
  8. 6 New Zealand 3.2 Percentage of GDP compare
  9. 6 Poland 1.96 Percentage of GDP compare
  10. 7 Israel 3.18 Percentage of GDP compare
  11. 7 Türkiye 0.408 Percentage of GDP compare
  12. 8 Finland 3.14 Percentage of GDP compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp in Lithuania?
Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp in Lithuania was 2.17 Percentage of GDP in 2021, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
What is the highest public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp recorded in Lithuania?
The highest recorded value was 2.84 Percentage of GDP in 2009.
What is the lowest public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp recorded in Lithuania?
The lowest recorded value was 1.52 Percentage of GDP in 1997.
How does Lithuania rank for public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp?
Lithuania ranks 5th out of 7 countries with data for 2021.
Is public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % gdp rising or falling in Lithuania?
Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Lithuania data come from?
The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP — Social expenditure. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP — Social expenditure
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Percentage of GDP
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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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.