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Determining the life expectancy coefficient and retirement age
Life expectancy coefficient and how it is determined
Impact on Pensions
Determining the retirement age for the old-age pension
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TEL-LEL pension system 1962
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Effective Retirement Age
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Statistics on Pensioners in Finland
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Earnings-related Pension Recipients in Finland
Previous releases
Working in Retirement
New Pension Benefits and the Pension Reform
Previous releases
Persons Insured for an Earnings-related Pension in Finland
Previous releases
Statistics on Insurance for Work Abroad and Posted Workers
Previous releases
Pension Applications
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Previous releases
Rehabilitation
Previous releases
Labour years ratio
Total Expenditure on Pensions
Previous releases
Financing of Pensions
Cash flows of the earnings-related pension system
TyEL assets and cash flows
Financial statement and cost of division figures
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Release Calendar 2024
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Research activities of the Finnish Centre for Pensions
Research on working life and its development
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Research on pension adequacy
Research on the financial sustainability of the pension system
Questionnaire surveys
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Findings from our research
Disability pensions and work ability
Impacts of 2017 and 2005 pension reforms
Pensioners’ economic wellbeing
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Pension system in Finland
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Previous releases
Earnings-related Pension Recipients in Finland
Earnings-related Pension Recipients in Finland: monthly statistic
Previous releases
Statistics on Pensioners in Finland
Previous releases
Working in Retirement
Previous releases
New Pension Benefits and the Pension Reform
Previous releases
Persons Insured for an Earnings-related Pension in Finland
Previous releases
Statistics on Insurance for Work Abroad and Posted Workers
Previous releases
Pension Applications
Pension Applications Forwarded Abroad
Previous releases
Rehabilitation
Previous releases
Labour years ratio
Total Expenditure on Pensions
Previous releases
Financing of Pensions
Cash flows of the earnings-related pension system
TyEL assets and cash flows
Financial statement and cost of division figures
Time series
Statistical Database
Release Calendar 2024
Release Calendar 2023
Contact Information, Statistics
Projections
Contact Information, Projections
Long-term Projections
Latest Projections
Assumptions of Projections
Description of projection model
Microsimulation Model ELSI
Key Figures
Pension recipients
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Share of population receiving pensions
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Average total pension
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Pension recipients living abroad
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New retirees on earnings-related pensions
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New retirees on earnings-related pensions/month
Expected effective retirement age
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New retirees on disability pension
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Rehabilitees under the earnings-related pension system
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Employed
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Employees' average insured earnings
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Total expenditure on pensions
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Earnings-related pension assets
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Annual adjustment of earnings-related pension index
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Pension system in Finland
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