Social protection expenditure
How big is the expenditure on social benefits in Denmark? How is the distribution across old-age pensions, sickness benefits and housing benefits? And how much is privately funded? The social protection expenditure statistics give an overview of which benefits belong under which schemes and how these are funded.
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Transfers in cash or in kind from all public or private entities to households and individuals to relieve dem of the burden of a defined set of risks or needs.
Social transfers in cash that do not require evidence of actual expenditure by recipients. Cash benefits can be paid as a lump sum or in regular intervals (week, month or quarter) such as sickness benefits, cash assistance and pension.
Benefits that are granted in the form of goods and services and can be provided by way of reimbursement or directly. Reimbursements are benefits in the form of payments that reimburse the recipient in whole or in part for certified expenditure on specified goods and services. Directly provided benefits are goods and services granted without any pre-financing by the beneficiary such as treatment at hospitals and stay in nursing homes and other residental facilities.
Prices or price level that applies to goods and services in the current period. The opposite of current prices is fixed prices.
Selected statistics on Social protection expenditure
Development in social expenditure
The main sources of the statistic are central and local accounts. This data is originally collected with the aim of mapping Government Finances. Supplementing data sources are insurance- and pensions subsectors in the financial sector, application matrixes from national accounts, hours and days of absence from work from the absence-statistics, and data on tax rates used for enumerating the statistic from the Ministry of Finance.
Cash benefits by function
The main sources of the statistic are central and local accounts. This data is originally collected with the aim of mapping Government Finances. Supplementing data sources are insurance- and pensions subsectors in the financial sector, application matrixes from national accounts, hours and days of absence from work from the absence-statistics, and data on tax rates used for enumerating the statistic from the Ministry of Finance.
Benefits in kind by function
The main sources of the statistic are central and local accounts. This data is originally collected with the aim of mapping Government Finances. Supplementing data sources are insurance- and pensions subsectors in the financial sector, application matrixes from national accounts, hours and days of absence from work from the absence-statistics, and data on tax rates used for enumerating the statistic from the Ministry of Finance.
Sources of funding
The main sources of the statistic are central and local accounts. This data is originally collected with the aim of mapping Government Finances. Supplementing data sources are insurance- and pensions subsectors in the financial sector, application matrixes from national accounts, hours and days of absence from work from the absence-statistics, and data on tax rates used for enumerating the statistic from the Ministry of Finance.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the Social Expenditure Statistics is to illuminate expenditure connected to social protection targeting individuals and households. Social protection encompasses a society’s interventions intended to relieve individuals and households of the financial burden of a defined set of risks or needs, e.g. illness. The statistics provide an overview of the development in expenditures related to social protection in Denmark and can be used to compare the level of social protection internationally. The statistics have been compiled since 2007 and are based on a European statistics system.