By OECD

The 2019 edition of Pension Markets in Focus provides an overview of the funded and private components of pension systems in 88 jurisdictions and outlines latest developments in the markets worldwide. It exhibits an extensive range of indicators relevant to funded and private pension arrangements, harmonised and standardised across jurisdictions. It monitors the key financial aspects of these arrangements, such as the amount of accumulated assets, the way these assets are invested and their investment performance, both over the past year and over the longer term. The report also examines the proportion of the population covered by pension plans, the amount of contributions paid into these plans and the benefits that members receive at retirement. The special feature in this year’s edition examines the gender pension gap from the angle of funded and private pensions. The data used to prepare this report have been collected from national authorities within the framework of the OECD’s Global Pension Statistics project first initiated in 2002 by the OECD Working Party on Private Pensions. The OECD’s partnership with the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) and the World Bank in more recent years has broadened the geographical coverage well beyond the 36 OECD countries to encompass a total of 88 jurisdictions. The OECD is grateful to the national authorities for providing data and comments, the IOPS and the World Bank who made the preparation of this report possible. This report was prepared by Romain Despalins under the supervision of Pablo Antolin and Stéphanie Payet from the Private Pension Unit of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. Comments and inputs from Boele Bonthuis, Elsa Favre-Baron, Diana Hourani, Maciej Lis, Jessica Mosher on the special feature of this report are gratefully acknowledged. Karen Castillo, Pamela Duffin and Arianna Ingle provided editorial assistance.

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