Public Social Spending as a Percentage of GDP in OECD Countries: Chart

Posted by David Hunkar on 11 February 2019, 3:21 am

We looked at social spending as a percentage of GDP in OECD countries last week.The following chart shows public social spending as a percentage of GDP. France is the biggest social spender and most of developed Europe spends higher than the OECD average on public spending because of highly liberal social benefits. The US ranks higher than Canada but below than the OECD average.

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