9/01 STATISTIQUES EN BREF - POPULATION ET CONDITIONS SOCIALES

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protection: expenditure on pensions Giuliano Amerini In 1998, expenditure on pensions was equivalent to 12.6% of GDP in the European Union. There are wide gaps between countries: Ireland 4.1% Italy 14.7%. in focus Between 1990 and 1998, expenditure on pensions in the European Union increased by 0.9 GDP percentage points, from 11.7% to 12.6%. The trend was irregular over the period. In most Member States in 1998, expenditure on pensions represented the most important share of social-protection expenditure, 47% of the total in the POPULATION AND European Union was spent on pensions. SOCIAL CONDITION In 1998, old-age pensions accounted for three-quarters of total pensions expenditure in the European Union. THEME 3 - 9/2001 Figure 1: Expenditure on pensions as a % of GDP (1998) 16.0 POPULATION AND LIVING 14.0 CONDITIONS 12.0 Contents 10.0 80 Slowed growth in expenditure on pensions 2 60 4 0 Expenditureonpensionsaccountsforhalf of social20 benefits 4 il 0 0 UK DK FIN 108 109 ■1998 n : 13.3 I 14.1 | 14.7 Old-agepensions dominate"' ' pensionsexpenditure 5Source: Eurostat-ESSPROS Some results for candidate In 1998, expenditure on pensions in EU-15 was equivalent to 12.6% of GDP. countries 6 In Italy it amounted to almost 15% of GDP, and in Austria to more than 14%. Ireland spends less than 5% of its GDP on pensions(1). In Iceland, the percentage is low (less than 6%).

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• Social security
• Social cost
• Disability insurance
• Member state of the European Union
• Statistics
• Economie gestion

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