Pensions at a Glance 2019
OECD and G20 Indicators
The 2019 edition of Pensions at a Glance highlights the pension reforms undertaken by OECD countries over the last two years. Moreover, two special chapters focus on non-standard work and pensions in OECD countries, take stock of different approaches to organising pensions for non-standard workers in the OECD, discuss why non-standard work raises pension issues and suggest how pension settings could be improved.
This edition also updates information on the key features of pension provision in OECD countries and provides projections of retirement income for today’s workers. It offers indicators covering the design of pension systems, pension entitlements, the demographic and economic context in which pension systems operate, incomes and poverty of older people, the finances of retirement-income systems and private pensions.
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Coverage of funded and private pension plans
In 2018, 17 of the 36 OECD countries had some form of mandatory or quasi-mandatory funded and private pension system in place, ensuring a high coverage of the working-age population. In Finland and Switzerland, occupational pensions are mandatory and cover more than 70% of the working-age population: employers must operate a scheme and contribution rates are set by the government. Other occupational pension systems can be classified as quasi-mandatory: through industry-wide or nation-wide collective bargaining agreements, employers establish schemes that employees must join. As not all sectors may be covered by such agreements, these systems are not classified as mandatory (e.g. Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden). In these countries, the coverage is close to the one in countries with mandatory systems. By contrast, in Turkey, participation in a plan is mandatory only for certain employees (e.g. OYAK for military personnel in Turkey), accounting for the relatively low proportion of people in a mandatory plan.
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