Pensioners and Insured in Finland
3.6 million people insured for earnings-related pension benefits in Finland
By the end of 2010, a total of 3.6 million people between the ages of 18 and 68 were insured for earnings-related pension benefits in Finland. Almost 2.4 million were employed or self-employed at the end of the year. Every sixth person insured for earnings-related pension benefits, 594,000 in total, received some kind of pension based on their own work history at the end of the year.
58,000 employees or self-employed persons were between 63 and 68 years old at the end of 2010. The work of this age cohort has clearly increased following the pension reform. By the end of the first year following the reform, 2005, 26,000 people from this age cohort were working. Growth has been particularly strong in the older age cohorts, in other words the 65 to 68-year-olds. 6,600 of them were at work in 2005, and in 2010 the figure was almost three times as much at 19,300.
87,000 people worked alongside receiving a pension, a third of which or 29,000 received a part-time pension.
Insured persons divided into employed or retired on 31.12.2010
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- Statistical database of the Finnish Centre for Pensions
- The insured (PDF): 2007 2008 2009
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03.04.2012