{"id":12848,"date":"2026-11-09T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12848"},"modified":"2026-11-09T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:01:00","slug":"romanias-social-protection-spending-as-share-of-gdp-is-among-the-lowest-in-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12848","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s social protection spending as share of GDP is among the lowest in EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among EU member states, the highest social protection expenditure as a percentage of GDP last year was recorded in Austria (32.4%), Finland (32.2%) and France (32.1%), while the lowest was in Ireland (11.7%), Malta (13.8%), Hungary (16.7%) and Romania (17.06%), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g4media.ro\/romania-printre-tarile-ue-cele-mai-scazute-cheltuieli-cu-protectia-sociala-ca-procent-din-pib-in-2025-arata-datele-eurostat.html?mc_cid=b57ffe68fd&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\">G4media.ro<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>By expenditure category, old-age pensions accounted for almost half of total social protection expenditure in the EU (41.5%, or EUR 2,152 billion), followed by healthcare expenditure (30%, or EUR 1,556 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Other categories include expenditure on families and children, sickness and survivors&#8217; benefits, unemployment, and social exclusion not elsewhere classified.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, social protection expenditure expressed in euros increased in all EU member states. The largest increases compared with 2024 were recorded in Croatia (15.4%), Bulgaria (12.1%) and Lithuania (11.6%), while the smallest were in Greece (0.6%), Romania (0.7%) and Finland (1.3%).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among EU member states, the highest social protection expenditure as a percentage of GDP last year was recorded in Austria (32.4%), Finland (32.2%) and France (32.1%), while the lowest was in Ireland (11.7%), Malta (13.8%), Hungary (16.7%) and Romania (17.06%), G4media.ro reported. By expenditure category, old-age pensions accounted for almost half of total social protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}