Social Policies: Pensions

QoG code: sgi_sope

The Pensions subpillar of the Social Policies category evaluates whether pension systems are designed to achieve fiscal sustainability and promote intergenerational equity. It assesses key indicators, including Pension Policy, Older Employment, Old Age Dependency Ratio, and Senior Citizen Poverty, to measure the effectiveness and fairness of pension systems in supporting the aging population.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-10-09
Last updated by source
2024-12-17

Categories

Welfare
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section 41
Standard cross-section 41
Standard time-series 41
OECD cross-section 30
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2013-2021

Country coverage

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  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea, South
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2013 to 2021.