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Recent years have witnessed intense pension reform efforts in countries around the globe, which have often involved an increased use of funded pension programmes managed by the private sector. There is a growing need among policy makers and the regulatory community, as well as among private sector participants, to compare programme developments and experiences to those of other countries. Because funded arrangements are likely to play an increasingly important role in delivering retirement income security in many countries, and because the investment of pension assets will increasingly affect securities markets in future years, the availability of an accurate, comprehensive, comparable and up-to-date body of international statistics is a necessary tool for policy-makers, regulators and market participants.
The Working Party on Private Pensions and its Task Force on Pension Statistics launched the Global Pension Statistics' project (GPS) in 2002. The GPS intends to provide a valuable device for measuring and monitoring the pension industry, and permit inter-country comparisons of current statistics and indicators on key aspects of retirement systems across OECD and non-OECD countries. Data are collected on an ongoing basis so that trends can be readily identified and analysed. The statistics cover an extensive range of indicators and relate to a wide definition of private pension plans, themselves subdivided into detailed categories using coherent statistical concepts, definitions and methodologies.
Online statistics database
Free online access to frequently-requested pensions statistics and indicators from the Global Pension Statistics database and Pension Indicators database.
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