About this data

Source: OECD, Social Expenditure Database (SOCX), via OECD Pensions at a Glance 2025

• Public pensions are cash benefits for old age and survivors paid by government (OECD SOCX), as used in Pensions at a Glance. In the UK, they're mostly the State Pension and public sector employees' pensions.
• Private pensions are those paid by mandatory and voluntary private schemes, such as UK workplace and personal pensions. They aren't available for every country, or for the OECD average.
• Countries where more of pensions comes from private schemes, like the UK and the Netherlands, spend less publicly than those that rely on public pensions, like France and Italy.

This chart appears in Pensions.