Pension Markets in Focus 2013
Private pensions play an important and growing role in providing for old age.Understanding the different features of private pensions, their role in retirement income arrangements, and their performance is essential for policymakers to design better schemes.
The OECD Working Party on Private Pensions and its Task Force on Pension Statistics launched the Global Pension Statistics project (GPS) in 2002. The GPS project intends to provide a valuable device for measuring and monitoring the private pension industry, and permit inter-country comparisons of current statistics and indicators on key aspects of retirement systems, encompassing the OECD and other interested countries in the world. 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.