Luxembourg vs United Kingdom: Social expenditure aggregates
Social expenditure aggregates over time
- Luxembourg
- United Kingdom
How they compare
Luxembourg currently reports 23.96 Percentage of GDP against 22.98 Percentage of GDP in United Kingdom, a difference of 0.98 Percentage of GDP.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 44 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Luxembourg ahead.
Luxembourg ranks 14th and United Kingdom ranks 16th of 33 countries.
Across the 5 decades both report, Luxembourg averaged higher in 2 and United Kingdom in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Luxembourg | United Kingdom | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 19.97 Percentage of GDP | 18.55 Percentage of GDP | 1.42 Percentage of GDP | Luxembourg |
| 1990s | 19.88 Percentage of GDP | 19.27 Percentage of GDP | 0.6168 Percentage of GDP | Luxembourg |
| 2000s | 21.22 Percentage of GDP | 21.27 Percentage of GDP | 0.0444 Percentage of GDP | United Kingdom |
| 2010s | 20.69 Percentage of GDP | 23.79 Percentage of GDP | 3.1 Percentage of GDP | United Kingdom |
| 2020s | 22.74 Percentage of GDP | 23.94 Percentage of GDP | 1.2 Percentage of GDP | United Kingdom |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher social expenditure aggregates, Luxembourg or United Kingdom?
- Luxembourg, at 23.96 Percentage of GDP against 22.98 Percentage of GDP in United Kingdom as of 2024.
- What is the difference in social expenditure aggregates between Luxembourg and United Kingdom?
- 0.98 Percentage of GDP, with Luxembourg ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Luxembourg and United Kingdom?
- 44 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2023.
- How do Luxembourg and United Kingdom rank globally for social expenditure aggregates?
- Luxembourg ranks 14th and United Kingdom ranks 16th of 33 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Social expenditure aggregates. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. It covers 38 OECD countries and some accession countries for the period 1980-2021/23 and estimates for aggregates for 2022-24. A Social Expenditure Update can be found under www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/social-expenditure-database-socx.htm. The main social policy areas are as follows: Old age, Survivors, Incapacity-related benefits, Health, Family, Active labor market programmes, Unemployment, Housing, and Other social policy areas. This version also includes estimates of net total social spending for 2021 for 38 OECD countries. SOCX aggregated data as well as sources and methodology are described in The OECD SOCX Manual – 2019 edition- A guide to the OECD Social Expenditure Database.