The percentage of GDP assigned to social protection in the Basque Country remained steady between 2010 and 2019, going from 23.8% to 24.3%. However, both the average for the European Union (28.0%) and those for countries like Denmark (31.7%) and Germany (30.0%) are above that of the Basque Country. In 2019 the Basque Country recorded a rate of 24.3%, a similar level to Spain (24.1%) and Greece (25.4%), but far from the average for the European Union and countries like France (33.4%) and Finland (30.1%).
