Social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-longrun https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spend

Social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-longrun https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long... It seems endemic to democratic states.