Cyprus Social Protection Spending Rises to €6.59bn, Equal to 18.07 per Cent of GDP
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Expenditure on social protection benefits in the European Union increased by nearly 5 percent in 2025, according to Eurostat's latest preliminary estimates. Although expenditure increased in all member states in euros, there are significant differences between individual countries in terms of GDP ratios, with Hungary having the third lowest ratio in the EU, Eurostat announced on its website.
Cyprus social protection spending rises to €6.59bn, equal to 18.07 per cent of GDP
Cyprus’ social protection expenditure rose by approximately 5.1 per cent year-on-year to an estimated €6.59 billion in 2025, up from €6.28 billion in 2024, while spending remained broadly unchanged as a share of the economy, according to preliminary figures published by Eurostat. However, social protection benefits accounted for 18.07 per cent of Cyprus’ gross domestic […]
The expenditure on social protection in Romania accounted for about 17.1% of GDP in 2025, one of the lowest weights in the European Union and more than ten percentage points below the EU average, of 27.5%. At the same time, they increased by only 0.7% compared to 2024, the second lowest in the Member States, according to preliminary estimates published by Eurostat on Friday.
The previous government spent an amount equivalent to one-sixth of GDP on social spending, such as pensions or healthcare, in 2025. This group of expenditures accounted for the largest proportion in Austria.
Hungary is in third place at the bottom of the list, with the government spending only one-sixth of GDP on social spending, such as pensions and healthcare. Austria leads.
The European Union's total spending on social protection reached 5.183 billion euros last year, an increase of 4.9 percent compared to 2024, according to data published on Friday by the Statistical Office of the European Union.
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