Public and private social expenditure in Czechia
Czechia: Public and private social expenditure was 22.1 Percentage of GDP in 2024. ▲ Rising
Public and private social expenditure in Czechia, 1990–2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of GDP.
Analysis
The most recent figure for public and private social expenditure in Czechia is 22.1 Percentage of GDP, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 2.5% on the previous year and up 10.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, public and private social expenditure in Czechia peaked at 22.93 Percentage of GDP in 2020 and was at its lowest, 13.93 Percentage of GDP, in 1990.
Czechia ranks 17th of 33 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 35 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 15.81 Percentage of GDP | 13.93 Percentage of GDP | 17.59 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2000s | 18.08 Percentage of GDP | 17.37 Percentage of GDP | 19.98 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2010s | 19.6 Percentage of GDP | 18.67 Percentage of GDP | 20.43 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2020s | 22 Percentage of GDP | 21.23 Percentage of GDP | 22.93 Percentage of GDP | 5 |
Countries ranked near Czechia
- 14 Luxembourg 23.96 Percentage of GDP compare
- 15 Greece 23.74 Percentage of GDP compare
- 16 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 22.98 Percentage of GDP compare
- 18 OECD 21.23 Percentage of GDP compare
- 19 Bulgaria 20.5 Percentage of GDP compare
- 20 United States of America 19.81 Percentage of GDP compare
More social development data for Czechia
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asy 395,559 (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of ori 794 (2025)
- Political rights rating fh 1 (2025)
- Democracy lexical 1 (2025)
- Political rights rating fh, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Political rights rating fh, gaps filled 1 (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of 0.0001 units per person (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of 794 (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of 0.0363 units per person (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is public and private social expenditure in Czechia?
- Public and private social expenditure in Czechia was 22.1 Percentage of GDP in 2024, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest public and private social expenditure recorded in Czechia?
- The highest recorded value was 22.93 Percentage of GDP in 2020.
- What is the lowest public and private social expenditure recorded in Czechia?
- The lowest recorded value was 13.93 Percentage of GDP in 1990.
- How does Czechia rank for public and private social expenditure?
- Czechia ranks 17th out of 33 countries with data for 2024.
- Is public and private social expenditure rising or falling in Czechia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Czechia data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Public and private social expenditure. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.