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Share of public social spending in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in a selection of OECD countries in 2019

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Release date

November 2020

Region

OECD

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

*For Canada, Costa Rica, and Colombia, the latest available data dated back to 2018.

Public social expenditures include:
- Retirement benefits
- Family allowances
- Social minimum benefits
- Employment reintegration assistance
- Disability pensions
- Unemployment benefits
- Housing assistance
- Health care
- and other social expenditures

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Share of public social spending in the GDP of several OECD countries 2019

Published by Zeynep Dierks, Jan 8, 2026
In 2019, France was the OECD country investing the most in the social sector, including health care, unemployment benefits, and pensions among others, with public spending amounting to ** percent of its Gross Domestic Product. It was closely followed by Finland, with an investment of **** percent in 2019.
Spain showed lower spending, at **** percent of GDP, but it is one of the countries that pays its nurses the best in the OECD, unlike France.
Countries on the American continent are those that invest proportionally the least in social spending: Mexico's expenditures were only *** percent of its GDP in 2019, and Chile's were **** percent.
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