Dataset · ILO
Old-Age Pension Coverage
Old-Age Pension Coverage, 2025 compilation · 211 countries · 3 measures
This is the share of people above the statutory pension age who actually receive an old-age pension, whether they paid into a scheme or receive one funded from taxes. It is the pension part of the United Nations’ measure of social protection, and it shows whether old age brings an income of its own.
This site holds one edition, Old-Age Pension Coverage, 2025 compilation, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Old-Age Pension Coverage · the file
- Newest
- Old-Age Pension Coverage, 2025 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 211 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old-Age Pension Coverage, 2025 compilation | 211 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: old-age-pension-coverage-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
027 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 211 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 211 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 13 | 0 | |
People above statutory pensionable age receiving an old-age pension (%)pension_coverageHeadline | The headline figure: People above statutory pensionable age receiving an old-age pension (%). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.03 share it100.063 share itmiddle 80.8 | 130 | 0 | |
Women (%)femaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.04 share it100.064 share itmiddle 91.8 | 76 | 65 | |
Men (%)maleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.03 share it100.081 share itmiddle 100.0 | 61 | 65 | |
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlag | ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure. | Text | — | 0 | 211 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03211 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 53 |
| Americas | 46 |
| Asia | 50 |
| Europe | 45 |
| Oceania | 17 |
| All | 211 |
One edition, covering 211 countries.
Not in this dataset · 14 places this site covers
ILO gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
2 · Their file
Old-Age Pension Coverage 2025
Read from the publisher’s own service.3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: old-age-pension-coverage-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
The pension part of SDG indicator 1.3.1, from the ILO’s World Social Protection Report, read from ILOSTAT directly. It comes from the same file as Social Protection Coverage, which counts anyone covered by any benefit.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Old-Age Pension Coverage, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Old-Age Pension Coverage, Old-Age Pension Coverage, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/old-age-pension-coverage
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. World Social Protection Report. Geneva: ILO.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Old-Age Pension Coverage by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Human Development IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 34 held · 1990–2023
- Maternal Mortality RatioMMEIG · 24 held · 2000–2023
- Social Protection CoverageILO · 1 held · 2025
07Questions
Old-Age Pension Coverage: questions and answers
What is the Old-Age Pension Coverage?
This is the share of people above the statutory pension age who actually receive an old-age pension, whether they paid into a scheme or receive one funded from taxes. It is the pension part of the United Nations’ measure of social protection, and it shows whether old age brings an income of its own.
Which editions of the Old-Age Pension Coverage can I download?
One: Old-Age Pension Coverage, 2025 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does ILO rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.