Below is one table: It shows the same as every other table on welfare expenditure: That Australia is well and truly at the low end of Western democracies in terms of welfare expenditure.
The table below shows, first, social expenditure as a percentage of GDP for some (selected) OECD member states and second, GDP per capita (PPP US$) in 2012:
Nation Social expenditure
(% of GDP)[58] Year[59] GDP per capita (PPP US$)[60]
France 33.0 2013 $35,500
Denmark 30.8 2013 $37,700
Belgium 27.2 2013 $38,100
Finland 30.5 2013 $36,500
Sweden 28.6 2013 $41,700
Italy 28.4 2013 $30,100
Austria 28.3 2013 $42,400
Spain 27.4 2013 $30,400
Portugal 26.4 2013 $23,000
Germany 26.2 2013 $39,100
Netherlands 24.3 2013 $42,300
Slovenia 23.8 2013 $27,400
United Kingdom 23.8 2013 $36,700
Luxembourg 23.4 2013 $53,780
Norway 22.9 2013 $55,300
New Zealand 22.4 2013 $30,400
Japan 22.3 2010 $36,200
Greece 21.9 2013 $25,100
Czech Republic 21.8 2013 $27,200
Ireland 21.6 2013 $41,300
Hungary 21.6 2013 $19,800
Poland 20.9 2013 $21,000
United States 20.0 2013 $49,800
Australia 19.5 2013 $42,400
Switzerland 19.0 2013 $54,600
Canada 18.2 2013 $41,500
Slovakia 17.9 2013 $24,300
Estonia 17.7 2013 $22,400
Iceland 17.2 2013 $39,400
Israel 15.8 2013 $34,900
Turkey 12.8 2009 $15,300
Chile 10.2 2012 $19,100
South Korea 9.3 2012 $33,200
Mexico 7.4 2012 $15,600
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