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Social protection expenditure and receipts in Sweden and Europe (ESSPROS)

Official statistics of Sweden

ESSPROS stands for European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics, a harmonised system providing a means of analysing and comparing social protection financial flows. This system has been developed by Eurostat in collaboration with the member states and the data are drawn up according to the ESSPROS Manual. Expenditure of social protection schemes is broken down into social benefits, administration costs and other expenditure. Receipts of social protection schemes comprise social contributions, general government contributions and other receipts.

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Expenditures on social protection as a share of GDP remained largely unchanged in 2023

2025-03-31

Social protection expenditures as a share of GDP remained more or less unchanged between 2022 and 2023, with shares at 27.5 and 27.4 percent respectively. Social protection expenditures in current prices increased, but less compared to the increase of GDP.

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