Current Welfare State

PUBLIC SOCIAL EXPENDITURE
TOTAL PUBLIC SOCIAL EXPENDITURE
In percentage of GDP
	1980	1990	2000	2001
Denmark	29.1	29.3	28.9	29.2
Sweden	28.8	30.8	28.6	28.9
France	21.1	26.6	28.3	28.5
Germany	23.0	22.8	27.2	27.4
Belgium	24.1	26.9	26.7	27.2
Switzerland	14.2	17.9	25.4	26.4
Austria	22.5	24.1	26.0	26.0
Finland	18.5	24.8	24.5	24.8
Italy	18.4	23.3	24.1	24.4
Greece	11.5	20.9	23.6	24.3
EU-15	20.6	23.4	23.7	24.0
Norway	17.9	24.7	23.0	23.9
Poland	m	15.5	21.9	23.0
OECD 23 *	17.9	20.9	21.8	22.1
OECD-21 *	17.7	20.5	21.6	21.9
United Kingdom	17.9	19.5	21.7	21.8
Netherlands	26.9	27.6	21.8	21.8
OECD-30 *	m	m	20.9	21.2
Portugal	10.9	13.9	20.5	21.1
OECD-28 *	m	19.1	20.7	21.1
Luxembourg	23.5	21.9	20.0	20.8
Czech Republic	m	17.0	20.3	20.1
Hungary	m	m	20.0	20.1
Iceland	m	16.4	19.7	19.8
Spain	15.9	19.5	19.9	19.6
Slovak Republic	m	m	18.3	17.9
Canada	14.3	18.6	17.3	17.8
United States	13.3	13.4	14.2	14.8
Ireland	17.0	18.6	13.6	13.8

Annex Table 25. General government total outlays

Per cent of nominal GDP

1990

2000

2006

Sweden

63.5

57.3

56.7

Denmark

57.0

54.9

54.1

France

50.7

52.5

53.9

Finland

48.7

49.1

50.4

Hungary

..

47.8

50.0

b

Belgium

53.4

49.3

49.1

Italy

54.4

46.9

48.7

Austria

51.6

51.4

48.2

Greece

50.2

52.1

48.1

Netherlands

54.8

45.3

47.8

Euro area

48.7

47.1

47.7

c

d

Portugal

42.1

45.2

47.3

Germany

44.5

45.7

46.1

Luxembourg

43.2

38.7

45.6

Norway

54.0

42.7

45.3

a

Czech Republic

..

42.1

45.2

United Kingdom

42.2

37.5

45.2

Poland

..

44.9

45.1

Iceland

42.4

43.1

43.6

Total OECD

40.3

39.2

40.4

Spain

43.4

40.0

40.1

Slovak Republic

..

59.9

38.1

United States

37.0

34.0

35.7

e

Switzerland

30.0

34.0

35.2

Ireland

43.2

32.0

34.3