Portugal - Social contributions

Social contributions (current LCU)

The value for Social contributions (current LCU) in Portugal was 24,629,540,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24,629,540,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 83,299,250 in 1973.

Definition: Social contributions include social security contributions by employees, employers, and self-employed individuals, and other contributions whose source cannot be determined. They also include actual or imputed contributions to social insurance schemes operated by governments.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1973 83,299,250
1974 104,248,800
1975 134,675,400
1976 173,082,900
1977 245,408,600
1978 303,269,100
1979 345,666,900
1980 483,834,000
1981 613,521,400
1982 751,688,400
1983 893,845,800
1984 1,055,456,000
1985 1,303,359,000
1986 1,971,249,000
1987 2,293,558,000
1988 2,793,717,000
1989 3,284,085,000
1990 4,054,728,000
1991 4,812,402,000
1992 5,430,911,000
1993 5,727,198,000
1994 6,247,943,000
1995 8,653,337,000
1996 9,144,798,000
1997 10,116,540,000
1998 11,234,050,000
1999 11,937,590,000
2000 13,281,640,000
2001 14,259,920,000
2002 15,371,330,000
2003 16,191,700,000
2004 17,034,540,000
2005 18,191,760,000
2006 18,540,840,000
2007 19,176,110,000
2008 20,007,150,000
2009 20,415,150,000
2010 20,631,850,000
2011 20,508,190,000
2012 18,503,480,000
2013 19,691,550,000
2014 19,825,910,000
2015 20,174,150,000
2016 20,991,690,000
2017 22,065,310,000
2018 23,228,750,000
2019 24,629,540,000

Social contributions (% of revenue)

Social contributions (% of revenue) in Portugal was 30.43 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 32.79 in 2009, while its lowest value was 22.31 in 1983.

Definition: Social contributions include social security contributions by employees, employers, and self-employed individuals, and other contributions whose source cannot be determined. They also include actual or imputed contributions to social insurance schemes operated by governments.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1975 28.21
1976 27.24
1977 27.61
1978 27.97
1979 25.15
1980 25.76
1981 26.01
1982 25.53
1983 22.31
1984 22.32
1985 22.63
1986 24.69
1987 26.31
1988 25.95
1989 23.07
1990 24.17
1995 29.40
1996 28.39
1997 28.56
1998 29.38
1999 28.19
2000 29.28
2001 30.02
2002 29.82
2003 31.17
2004 31.24
2005 31.60
2006 30.53
2007 29.71
2008 30.47
2009 32.79
2010 32.47
2011 31.39
2012 29.41
2013 29.27
2014 29.28
2015 29.12
2016 29.69
2017 29.96
2018 29.79
2019 30.43

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance