Expenditure on pensions

Current prices (% of GDP)

The 'Pensions' aggregate comprises part of periodic cash benefits under the disability, old-age, survivors and unemployment functions. It is defined as the sum of the following social benefits: disability pension, early-retirement due to reduced capacity to work, old-age pension, anticipated old-age pension, partial pension, survivors' pension, early-retirement benefit for labour market reasons.

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	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
EU (27 countries)	..	..	..	..	..	..	12.150539	11.927897	11.662113	12.040054	13.008484 ^(p)	12.992398 ^(p)
Euro area (17 countries)	..	12.539838	12.545211	12.683844	12.756899	12.687163	12.665816	12.409569	12.222925	12.432710	13.378687 ^(p)	13.393146 ^(p)
Euro area (16 countries)	..	12.545227	12.551724	12.691074	12.764859	12.695429	12.675129	12.419750	12.234427	12.442176	13.385285 ^(p)	13.400065 ^(p)
Belgium	11.341968	10.991881	11.102487	11.245489	11.334243	11.174848	11.225901	11.095077	10.745943	11.370793	12.189502	12.133370
Bulgaria	..	..	..	..	..	..	7.566397	7.247280	6.853916	7.018568	8.803112	9.188142
Czech Republic	8.259373	8.224160	8.205386	8.410544	8.338088	7.947166	8.029707	8.010669	7.935896	8.158331	9.069954	9.207232
Denmark	10.827283	10.486527	10.626068	10.747358	11.138433	11.036789	10.989665	10.681084	10.705812	11.000815	11.972478	12.312949
Germany	12.974233	13.122052	13.238936	13.427202	13.616109	13.480023	13.416681	12.961151	12.438581	12.403130	13.229759	12.833429 ^(p)
Estonia	7.590930	6.610442	5.933093	5.875545	5.875168	5.987837	5.890965	5.907937	5.771404	7.053544	9.107450	8.967477
Ireland	3.747119	3.573481	3.690498	4.643279	4.849095	4.893409	4.918127	5.026863	5.192152	6.128280	7.039005	7.216460 ^(p)
Greece	11.285875	11.128163	11.866800	11.763996	11.538440	11.699991	12.195336	12.133454	12.297206	12.720015	13.482240	13.918069
Spain	9.612604	9.648194	9.363667	9.297904	9.181082	9.130406	9.056427	8.939634	9.014548	9.262670	10.173782 ^(p)	10.757135 ^(p)
France	13.367153	12.963960	12.952747	13.030348	13.116899	13.158340	13.296404	13.067995	13.124207	13.413421	14.304636	14.405034 ^(p)
Italy	14.760430	14.312372	14.266115	14.513397	14.624957	14.568497	14.642161	14.555823	14.500654	14.854071	15.997880 ^(p)	16.012729 ^(p)
Cyprus	..	5.712851	5.756305	6.405503	6.734456	6.580633	6.707926	6.705588	6.612140	6.793668	7.355959	7.821517
Latvia	10.722776	9.582878	8.668739	8.307671	7.539761	6.871247	6.379891	6.162321	5.306008	6.026843	8.438649	9.993690 ^(p)
Lithuania	..	7.752371	7.227197	6.931821	6.728451	6.648837	6.473104	6.290557	6.580491	7.395640	9.570600 ^(p)	8.576593 ^(p)
Luxembourg	10.063064	9.396138	9.814001	10.027062	10.110254	9.892037	9.576074	8.642688	8.239707	8.760931	9.810925	9.223867
Hungary	9.027132	8.699737	8.727863	8.913552	9.235911	9.325046	9.804749	10.025414	10.525206	11.006567	11.187863	10.963175
Malta	8.403699	7.883096	8.716448	8.522196	8.720146	9.001948	9.155745	9.210768	9.025549	9.087728	9.632126	9.954713
Netherlands	12.830191	12.518423	12.439389	12.748756	12.786170	12.792762	12.541901	12.288233	12.074897	12.005430	12.781669	12.882936 ^(p)
Austria	14.326024	14.242549	14.421879	14.499248	14.643135	14.411252	14.168066	13.971289	13.766354	14.019954	14.980946	14.992738
Poland	..	12.595283	13.601796	13.740604	13.843233	13.267703	12.675615	12.545056	11.586852	11.609991	11.882026	11.880772
Portugal	9.696405	10.061591	10.447442	10.904840	11.380136	11.913199	12.298341	12.587171	12.604735	13.204349	14.122919	14.226404
Romania	..	6.113508	6.198695	6.720959	5.985992	6.163691	6.185435	6.019873	6.445087	7.606856	9.408756	9.459990
Slovenia	10.856658	11.010737	11.121602	11.265715	10.746047	10.495689	10.330536	10.260627	9.737521	9.641562	10.847388	11.219229 ^(p)
Slovakia	7.487778	7.460835	7.380766	7.403622	7.322193	7.400628	7.483688	7.351667	7.265902	7.165036	8.477716	8.427087 ^(p)
Finland	11.063321	10.550488	10.628202	10.936344	11.257903	11.173543	11.180017	11.100163	10.751776	10.799991	12.639983	12.723860
Sweden	11.754467	11.272168	11.282186	11.514468	12.197690	12.146870	12.226874	11.787786	11.577764	11.808402	12.881199	12.110989 ^(p)
United Kingdom	11.242321	11.943373	11.527826	10.856330	10.672765	10.595223	10.692900	10.694235	10.154223	11.289961	12.240344	12.232986
Iceland	5.875222	6.227708	6.123665	6.614124	7.291585	7.100703	6.980755	6.782519	6.953499	7.196925	8.258371	7.884467
Norway	8.668153	7.555029	7.721400	8.326726	8.643193	8.318234	7.921203	7.552959	7.681692	7.489822	8.691805	8.337184
Switzerland	11.981535	11.786903	12.184714	12.368879	12.776529	12.631807	12.725670	12.204044	11.980040	11.620081	12.389235	12.190212 ^(p)
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Croatia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	9.465964	10.427953	10.631128
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Turkey	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..

(..) - not available
(p) - provisional

Source: Eurostat