Earnings-related Pension Recipients in Finland: monthly statistic

Concepts and definitions

Earnings-related pension recipient

A person who receives an earnings-related pension or survivors’ pension based on their own work history at the end of the statistical month. Pensions received in one’s own right include the old-age pension, the partial old age pension, the disability pension, the special farmer’s pension and the part-time pension.

Recipients who receive a survivors’ pension of 0 euros are excluded from the statistics.

New retiree

New retirees are persons whose pension based on their own working life (old-age, disability or special farmer’s pension) has begun during the statistical period.

Persons who have started to draw a partial old-age pension are not considered new retirees. If the level of the partial old-age pension changes during the statistical period, the person has been included in the data of both 25% and 50% pensions.

The monthly statistics of new retirees are preliminary figures.

Average pension

The average earnings-related pension includes the average euro amount of pensions based on one’s working life that were in payment at the end of the month. “All pension benefits” include survivors’ pensions.

The statistics of the average pension of new retirees are preliminary figures.

Monthly earnings-related pension expenditure

All earnings-related pensions in payment at the end of the month. Pensions paid as lump-sums are not included in the earnings-related pension expenditure.

Read more on Etk.fi:

• Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Statistics on Pensioners in Finland