Assets earmarked for retirement

Assets earmarked for retirement are assets accumulating to back future benefit payments. These assets may accumulate in pension funds, pension insurance contracts, bank or investment company managed funds. They may be in occupational or personal plans, defined benefit (DB) or defined contribution (DC) plans.

This dataset shows the amount of assets - expressed in national currency, USD and as a percentage of GDP - by type of vehicle.

Data cover employers’ book reserves but do not cover reserves of public (pay-as-you-go) pension arrangements.