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[ILO] Proportion of population above statutory pensionable age receiving a pension, by sex (%) — people aged 65 and older

It belongs to Social Protection and Equality of Opportunity, the part of the welfare catalog concerned with income security and access to benefits across age, disability, employment, and household circumstances. The exact stored unit is PERCENT, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is United Nat…

current value79.6PERCENT
Within typical rangeChanged +0.00
GlobalAbove normal = betterimportance: 0.80unit: PERCENT0 active driversUpdated Dec 2023

How to read it

Readings above the normal line are better than normal; readings below it are worse.

Indicator & its drivers over time

About this indicator

It belongs to Social Protection and Equality of Opportunity, the part of the welfare catalog concerned with income security and access to benefits across age, disability, employment, and household circumstances. The exact stored unit is PERCENT, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is United Nations Statistics Division, and the immutable numerical identity is UN-SDG-1.3.1#SICOVPENSN#Age=65+|Reporting Type=G|Sex=BOTHSEX identity. Candidate 92 is broader or differently denominated than “[ILO] Proportion of population above statutory pensionable age receiving a pension, by sex (%) — people aged 65 and older” in PERCENT. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. For catalog item 92, the provider definition is: [ILO] Proportion of population above statutory pensionable age receiving a pension, by sex (%). The stored rows are the official World aggregate for SDG indicator 1.3.1, series SICOVPENSN, constrained to Age=65+|Reporting Type=G|Sex=BOTHSEX. That definition controls the denominator, population, reporting instrument, and statistical meaning. This Indicator records an observed outcome; it does not assert why that outcome changed. Welfare assessment for item 92 uses higherisbetter. Higher observations are treated as better welfare relative to the dated comparative reference. The direction applies to the stored official measure after the disclosed transformation, if any, rather than being inferred from an emotionally positive or negative title. No mathematical transformation is applied before persistence. Keeping title, series identity, unit, scope, transformation, and interpretation together prevents the record from mixing incompatible measurement concepts. The numerical observations for catalog item 92 were retrieved from United Nations Global SDG Indicators Database through https://unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg/Indicator/Data?indicator=1.3.1&areaCode=1&pageSize=1000 (opens in a new tab). The provider landing page is https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database?indicator=1.3.1 (opens in a new tab). The research package records the access date, exact dataset and series identifiers, dimension key Age=65+|Reporting Type=G|Sex=BOTHSEX, unit, provider metadata, transformation, and yearly aggregation label. The bounded Source and Evidence records can therefore reproduce which numbers were used without treating a generic homepage as row-level proof. Measurement provenance for item 92 follows this provider method: The United Nations database supplies a World aggregate for the exact series and dimension tuple. Factrail stores that published global observation and does not recompute it from country rows. 2018 uses the provider-published World aggregate; 2019 uses the provider-published World aggregate; 2020 uses the provider-published World aggregate; 2021 uses the provider-published World aggregate; 2022 uses the provider-published World aggregate; 2023 uses the provider-published World aggregate. The output keeps full numerical precision through NormalLine, deviation, and interpretation calculations. Display clients may round for readability, but the persisted value is not squeezed into a zero-to-one score and is not rounded before calculation. The item 92 NormalLine starts on 2018-01-01 at 79.55 PERCENT. 75th percentile of retained official World observations across the disclosed publication window. The calculation keeps the source unit, dimensions, and transformation fixed and is a comparative reference rather than an invented statutory target. For zeroisnorm, the value is exactly zero and is never relaxed because non-zero observations are common. For every item 92 point, normallinevalue copies that dated line and deviationfromnormal is stored in raw-unit terms as observation minus NormalLine. Arithmetic sign and welfare sign are separate. A positive raw deviation is adverse for lowerisbetter, favourable for higherisbetter, and adverse above zero for zeroisnorm. The custom governance score retains its provider scale and uses the public methodology explanation rather than title sentiment. The complete retained sequence is 2018: 77.1 PERCENT; 2019: 78.2 PERCENT; 2020: 78.7 PERCENT; 2021: 79.4 PERCENT; 2022: 79.6 PERCENT; 2023: 79.6 PERCENT. The first observation is 77.1 PERCENT in 2018 and the latest is 79.6 PERCENT in 2023. The absolute change is 2.5 PERCENT, equivalent to 3.24254215305% of the absolute starting level. The minimum observed value is 77.1 PERCENT, and the maximum is 79.6 PERCENT. For catalog item 92, the latest observation differs from the NormalLine by 0.05 PERCENT and is classified as positive under higherisbetter. That classification is a deterministic comparison, not a causal explanation or editorial verdict. A movement may reflect real change, altered reporting coverage, revised estimates, a changed survey frame, or several of those at once. There are 6 retained item 92 observations in the selected 2018-2025 research window. The retained observations satisfy the minimum temporal rule without interpolation, extrapolation, or forward filling. Missing years are absent observations, not zeroes. The sequence is intentionally irregular when the official source is irregular, because a smooth-looking line created by invented values would be methodologically false. The displayed global item 92 sequence has one consistent numerical identity: UN-SDG-1.3.1#SICOVPENSN#Age=65+|Reporting Type=G|Sex=BOTHSEX identity. No second source series is spliced into a gap, no latest value is copied into a missing year, and no country-only observation is relabelled as a World value. If the source later adds or revises an observation, the update must arrive as a new reviewed research package with its own checksum and audit record. A defensible graph edge requires an existing Driver, direction, strength, lag, confidence, and Source/Evidence that supports the mechanism. The outcome series alone cannot establish that causal chain. For item 92, importance weight 0.8 is generated by indicator-importance-rubric-v1. Its five committed components are directness 0.75, population reach 0.75, persistence 0.8, effect on human capabilities 0.85, and overlap control 0.75. The formula weights them 0.35, 0.25, 0.20, 0.15, and 0.05, then rounds to the nearest 0.05. The value is deterministic and reproducible; it is not an intuitive score assigned while drafting prose. Candidate 92 is broader or differently denominated than “[ILO] Proportion of population above statutory pensionable age receiving a pension, by sex (%) — people aged 65 and older” in PERCENT. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. The correction preserves all 120 catalog candidates as auditable inputs while refusing to fabricate a literal series that the selected official systems do not publish coherently. The resulting canonical Indicator may be narrower, differently denominated, or differently scoped than the preliminary phrase, and that difference is part of the record rather than hidden in a footnote. The 2018-2023 sequence for item 92 is too short for strong causal or structural claims. Cross-economy comparability can be affected by institutional definitions, survey coverage, modelled estimates, missing observations, classification practices, revisions, and unequal statistical capacity. A global aggregate or unweighted reporting-economy mean can also conceal distributional extremes and should not be used as an individual-level estimate. The item 92 NormalLine is a transparent comparative reference, not a claim that every jurisdiction has the same legal target or feasible frontier. The source may revise both historical points and metadata. Any later refresh must preserve the earlier Source, Evidence, checksum, and audit trail; it must not mutate the meaning of an already reviewed series identity.

Causal network

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