Expenditure

Social expenditure mainly comprises

• pensions
• health insurance and
• unemployment security spending, as well as
• social and healthcare costs covered by tax reserves.

Private insurance, social and health care patient and client fees or personal liability in health insurance are not calculated in social expenditure.

Social spending in Finland was

• 63.2 billion euros in 2013
• 66.1 billion euros in 2014
• 66.3 billion euros in 2015.

In 2015, social expenditure constituted 31.6 per cent of GDP. This is 0.3 percentage points less than 2014.The GDP share of social protection expenditure in Finland is slightly above the EU average. The per capita social protection expenditure adjusted by purchasing power parity is also higher than the EU average.

Financing expenditure 

Social protection in Finland is financed as follows (2015):

• employers pay 34.4 %
• insured pay 13.3 %
• the state pays 26.5 %
• municipalities pay 20.8 %

The remaining 6% is covered by return of social protection funds.

In Finland, statistics on social expenditure are produced by the National Institute for Health and Welfare(THL).

• Health Expenditure and Financing (THL)

Finland's social expenditure for the years 2013-2015