{"id":279581,"date":"2025-07-21T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279581\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:14:13","slug":"eu-family-benefits-averaged-e830-per-person-in-2022-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279581\/","title":{"rendered":"EU family benefits averaged \u20ac830 per person in 2022 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2022, <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU<\/a> countries spent an average of \u20ac830 per person on family benefits, marking a 46.7% increase over the past decade (from \u20ac566 in 2012).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The countries with the highest expenditure on family benefits per person in 2022 were Luxembourg (\u20ac3 789), Denmark (\u20ac1 878) and Germany (\u20ac1 616). The countries with the lowest expenditure were Bulgaria (\u20ac211), Greece (\u20ac264) and Cyprus (\u20ac277).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/81be1c1a-00c4-1141-db49-85ec0bc5f5d4\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Family benefits expenditure, 2022, \u20ac per inhabitant. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/81be1c1a-00c4-1141-db49-85ec0bc5f5d4\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/f928bf09-b648-4e99-86a1-e5564836374c?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spr_exp_func<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Family benefits account for 8.6% of all social protection spendings\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Family benefits represented 8.6% of the total spending on <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Social_protection_benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social protection benefits<\/a> in 2022 in the EU, an increase of 0.6 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Percentage_point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">percentage points<\/a> compared with 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The highest shares of expenditure on family benefits were recorded in Poland (15.6% of the total social benefits), Luxembourg (14.8%) and Estonia (12.4%). The lowest shares were in Cyprus (4.6%), the Netherlands (4.7%) and Portugal (5.3%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/edb00ed2-e743-71d2-bf15-ea48d5e09c19\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Family benefit expenditure, 2022, % of total social protection expenditure. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/edb00ed2-e743-71d2-bf15-ea48d5e09c19\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/0067e839-67a2-4564-9ac7-775a409d28ba?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spr_exp_func<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2022, EU countries spent an average of \u20ac830 per person on family benefits, marking a 46.7% increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64410,2000,299,5187,64411,105304],"class_list":{"0":"post-279581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-data-driven-news","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-population-and-social-conditions","13":"tag-spr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114890464692131558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}