Table (ad hoc): Pensions due to disability in the statutory pension insurance
Pensions due to disability ("verminderte Erwerbsfähigkeit") in the statutory pension insurance (number total or per 100,000 actively insured persons). Classification: years, region, age, sex, pension fund organisation
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Pensions due to disability in the statutory pension insurance
The reported figures are for the number of pensions paid by the statutory pension insurance due to diminution of ability to work including pensions in accord with Art. 2 of the law regarding pension transfer (Rentenüberleitungsgesetz), excluding zero pensions. Since 2001 pensions according to Art. 2 of the law regarding pension transfer (Rentenüberleitungsgesetz) are no longer reported.
Shown values refer to: Region: Germany, Sex: All sexes, Pension fund organizations: Statutory pension insurance, Presentation: Number
§ 7 RSVwV (Allgemeine Verwaltungsvorschrift über die Statistik in der Rentenversicherung).
Data Collector:
Annuity insurance institutions.
Reporting Stations:
-
Object under Review:
Annuity payments take place on the appointed day in accordance with the relevant demographic aspects and insurance law (nature of the annuity, amount of annuity due etc.).
Interviewees:
Recipients of pensions from the statutory annuity insurance.
Collection:
- Instruments:
Mainly data produced in the course of processing.
- Periodicity:
Annually (deadline: December 31).
- First:
1984
- Last:
-
Processing:
- Periodicity:
Annually.
Publication:
- Regular:
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Statistik der Deutschen Rentenversicherung "Rente";
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Rentenversicherung in Zeitreihen;
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Rentenversicherung in Zahlen;
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund-Info; Statistikportal der Rentenversicherung (http://statistik-rente.de).
- Irregular:
-
Completeness, Sample Proportion and Representativity:
Full survey.
Conceivable Modifications:
-
Comparable Data Sources:
-
Remarks:
-
Last Update:
April 14, 2025
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Data owner: German Annuity Insurance Federation
Statistics on the number of retired people
1. Basics and content of the statistics
Basics of the statistics are only the administrative processes for the current pensions and for pensions which do not come to payment
because of coincidence of pensions and income (zero pensions - "Nullrenten")
of all pension insurance organizations (regional organizations, the German Annuity Insurance Federation and the German pension insurance
miners-railway-sea ("Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See").
Because of the legal basis in effect since 1 January 1992 in the Statistics on the number of retired people two case groups must
be distinguished:
pensions, which are calculated according to the regulations of Book Six of the Code of Social Law (SGB VI)
pensions, which were converted into the regulations of Book Six of the Code of Social Law
(SGB VI) taking effect on 1 January 1992.
The statistical characteristics for the two case groups are different. While in case of the converted (evaluated) pensions especially the
characteristics for the pension calculation are not available, these characteristics must be statistically collected in case of
pension calculation according to SGB VI.
2. Realization of the statistics
All data have been taken from the insurance accounts of the pension insurance organizations.
2.1 Data collection
All data can be taken from the insurance accounts of the pension insurance organizations. In the practical realization of the data
collection two types of data must be distinguished. Nearly all characteristics of the data collection are not stored for statistical purposes
only, but for the purposes of pension determination and pension payment. Only a small number of figures, such as the professional group, are
only collected and coded for statistical purposes.
2.2 Error checking and data transfer
The insurance organizations submit the records created to a standardized plausibility program. This - fully mechanical - program can
identify any inadequacies, which can occur in manual coding.
For all records a pseudonymisation takes place at the insurance organizations. The insurance policy number of the respective insurance
account is replaced by a random number. The insurance organizations transfer the pseudonymised records to the statistical reporting
(Statistischem Berichtswesen) of the German Annuity Insurance Federation in Würzburg for further analysis.
2.3 Evaluation
In the specific statistics data about
pensions because of diminution of ability to work
pensions because of old age respectively
pensions because of death
are only recorded, if the pension amount is greater than zero.
Records where the pension amount has the value zero, but where personal earning points ("Entgeltpunkte")
and a marking of coincidence of pensions and income or an income to be considered when calculating the pension
("Einkommensanrechnungsbetrag") are included, are reported as zero pensions
("Nullrente"). Records, which do not satisfy these requirements, are not included in the tables.
Zero pensions are principally not included in the specific types of pension.
3. Specific Characteristics of the evaluation
3.1 Effects of the law change on 1 January 2001
The law on the reform of pensions because of diminution of ability to work came into effect on 1 January 2001.
With the new regulations the previous pensions because of occupational disability and inability to work were no longer applicable.
But if an entitlement to a pension because of occupational disability or inability to work existed
on 31 December 2000, the respective claim further exists until
the 65th year of life, as long as the requirements which were decisive for the grant of the benefit are met. Within this statistics the
pensions because of diminution of ability to work with a start before 1 January 2001,
which are paid as pensions because of occupational disability, are reported under pensions because of partial diminution of ability to work
("teilweise Erwerbsunfähigkeit"). Pensions because of diminution of ability to work with a start
before 1 January 2001, which are paid as pensions because of inability to work, are included in
the pensions because of full diminution of ability to work.
3.2 Pensions according to Art. 2 RÜG
The transitional law ("Übergangsrecht") according
to Art. 2 RÜG expired
by 31 December 1996.
Thus, for cases after this date no pension claims according to Art. 2 RÜG can arise any more.
Extract from:
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (DRV) (Hrsg.),
Statistik der Deutschen Rentenversicherung Rente, Berlin.
ISSN 1862-9962. (only in German).
Rente, ISSN 2509-453X.
Update status: April 14, 2025
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Statistics on those actively insured, German Annuity Insurance Federation (more information on
§ 1 Absatz 1 RSVwV (Allgemeine Verwaltungsvorschrift über die Statistik in der Rentenversicherung).
Data Collector:
Annuity insurance institutions.
Reporting Stations:
-
Object under Review:
Actively insured persons of the statutory annuity insurance, particularly acc. to nature and scope of the time relevant to insurance law spent in the reporting year.
Interviewees:
Insured persons of the statutory annuity insurance.
Collection:
- Instruments:
Mainly data produced in the course of processing.
- Periodicity:
Annually.
- First:
1982
- Last:
Inapplicable.
Processing:
- Periodicity:
Annually.
Publication:
- Regular:
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Statistik der Deutschen Rentenversicherung (ehemals: Verband Deutscher Rentversicherungsträger, VDR-Statistik) "Versicherte, (früher: Aktiv Versicherte)";
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Rentenversicherung in Zeitreihen;
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Rentenversicherung in Zahlen;
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Deutsche Rentenversicherung-Info; Statistikportal der Rentenversicherung (http://statistik-rente.de) unter Menüpunkt Versicherte, bzw. Zeitreihen - Versicherte.
- Irregular:
-
Completeness, Sample Proportion and Representativity:
Full survey.
Conceivable Modifications:
-
Comparable Data Sources:
-
Remarks:
-
Last Update:
April 24, 2025
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methodology
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Data owner: German Annuity Insurance Federation
Statistics on those actively insured
1. Basics and content of the statistics
The statistics are based on the annual reviews of all insurance accounts of the 14 regional organizations, the German Annuity Insurance
Federation and the German pension insurance miners'-railway-sea ("Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See").
In this review a statistic record is created for each insured person who in the reporting period had at least temporarily a duty to obtain
insurance in the pension insurance (he/she was compulsory insured) or for whom a voluntary contribution was paid (he/she was voluntarily insured)
or who was at least insignificantly employed without waiver of exemption from insurance. A statistic record is also created for accounts,
where for the reporting period a credited period ("Anrechnungszeit"),
a child birth, a contribution refund, an additional payment for a training period or the payment of contributions in case of early
claim of pension because of old age is noted.
2. Realization of the statistics
2.1 Data collection
All data have been taken from the insurance accounts of the insurance organizations. In the insurance accounts the insurance organizations
store all data, which can be substantial for a later granting of benefits (especially granting of measures to ensure participation and pensions)
to the individual insured persons or their surviving dependants. These facts include information about when an insured person was in which
insurance contract and for which periods of time in which extent contributations were paid or were classified as paid. This data reaches the
insurance organizations via the integrated notification procedure for social security.
Employers have to report every compulsorily insured employee on 31 December of the previous year by 15 April, unless cancellations or
notifications from other causes were due earlier. The notifications of the employer are delivered via the health insurances institutions,
which have competence ratione loci and ratione materiae. Other notifications - like those of the labour administration - are directed
directly to the pension insurance. The institutions of the Statutory Pension Insurance have set agreements with several institutions involved
in the reporting procedure, with the help of which it is intended to have all notififations available at the responsible institutions of the
pension insurance in May of the following year (different for military or civil service periods).
In the integrated reporting procedure more than 3 million employers and a wide range of institutions work together. In such processes
it must be assumed that mistakes can happen and notifications arrive late. Therefore, the insurance accounts are first evaluated on
1 October of the year following the reference day. So, there is a difference between the reference day for the characteristics of the
Statistics on those actively insured, and the day, when the survey is technically realized.
Although these reference days are 9 months apart, not all notifications reach the insurance accounts in time. It is unknown on 1 October
how many insurance accounts are not yet completed.
Therefore in each record of the Statistics on those actively insured not only the year of the reference day is analysed, but also the previous year.
On 1 October 21 months are gone since 31 December of the year previous to the reporting year (only 9 month since the reference day).
At that time the assumption is made that for the previous year all notifications are available. Therefore the published results for the
previous year are termed as updated results.
2.2 Error checking and data transfer
The insurance organizations submit the provided records for the statistics on those actively insured to a standardized plausibility
program. This program can identify any inadequacies, which can occur in manual coding. For all records a pseudonymisation takes place at
the insurance organizations. The insurance policy number, under which the case is kept in the insurance account, is replaced by a pseudonym.
These pseudonymised records are transferred from the insurance organizations to the German Annuity Insurance Federation to be analysed.
For the currently available years also implausible records were sent. As far as possible, in consultation with the responsible
insurance organizations an automated data correction by the German Annuity Insurance Federation took place. However, some implausible
records had to be excluded from analysis.
3 Characteristics
3.1 Upper income limit for the assessment of contributions
In the calculation of average values in this reporting gross wages liable to contribution are included only to the upper limit for the
contribution assessment. Because of the still existing different income situations between persons subject to the pension insurance
contributions in the former federal territory and those in the new Länder including Berlin-East the legislature has specified also
different upper income limits for the contribution assessment for "East" and "West".
3.2 Plausibility check
The records for the Statistics on those actively insured are acquired from the insurance accounts of the insurance organizations.
Not all insurance accounts are fully tested when the statistics is carried out. Therefore, all statistics records are submitted to
an automatic plausibility program and - where necessary and reasonably possible - automatically corrected.
3.3 Coverage
In the Statistics on those actively insured results for the reporting year and updated results for the previous reporting year are reported.
For the data of the reporting year it is assumed, that not yet all reports are included in the insurance accounts and that therefore
there is an undercoverage.
Particulars about the cited references can be found in the below publication.
Extract from:
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (DRV) (Hrsg.):
DRV Statistik Versicherte bzw. Aktiv Versicherte,
Berlin,
ISSN 1862 - 9989 (only in German).
Update Status: April, 24th 2025
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Definition(s)
Age/entry age (statistics on the number of retired people, people entering retirement)
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In terms of the Statistics on the number of retired people respectively of the Statistics on people entering retirement of the
German Annuity Insurance Federation:
The age of the beneficiary or the person insured is calculated by determining the difference of the reporting month and
reporting year respectively in case of entering retirement of the date of the event (beginning of the retirement), change
of type of benefit/of partial amount and of pension entitlement) and the birth month and birth year of the beneficiary respectively the person insured.
Manual Wage Earners' Pension Insurance
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In terms of the statistics on those actively insured, on the rehabilitation services, on the number of retired people
and on people entering retirement of the German Annuity Insurance Federation:
On 1 January 2005 the statutory pension insurances for manual workers and for salaried employees have been combined
to form the general pension insurance. Starting from then no difference has been made between manual workers and salaried
employees in the statutory pension insurance.
Responsible for the fulfilment of the tasks of the statutory pension insurance in the general pension insurance are the
regional supporting organizations, the German Annuity Insurance Federation and German Pension Insurance miners-railway-sea.
Up to 31 December 2004 the manual wage earners' pension insurance was the statutory pension insurance of the industrial
employees and of the skilled craftsmen liable to the compulsory insurance. Insurance organizations were the 22 state
insurance institutions for employees as well as the railway insurance institution and the Seamen's Accident Prevention
and Insurance Association (Seekasse) (for both: their field manual wage earners' pension insurance).
Miners' Pension Insurance
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In terms of the Statistics on those actively insured, on the rehabilitation services, on the number of retired people and
on people entering retirement of the German Annuity Insurance Federation:
The miners' pension insurance is a field of the statutory pension insurance. Supporting organization of the miners' pension
insurance is the German pension insurance miners-railway-sea (until 30 September 2005:
federal miners' insurance (Bundesknappschaft).
The miners' pension insurance is in charge of employees in mining companies and other employees according to § 133 SGB VI.
On 1 October 2005 due to an organization reform of the statutory pension insurance a consolidation of the former federal miners' insurance
(Bundesknappschaft), the railway insurance institution and Seamen's Accident Prevention and Insurance Association (Seekasse) to the German
pension insurance miners-railway-sea was put into effect.
The German pension insurance miners-railway-sea has also further tasks.
It is also a supporting organization of the general pension insurance and as supporting organization of the center for minijobs it
is responsible for the insurance of people who are insignificantly employed.
Pensions because of diminution of ability to work
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In terms of the Statistics on the number of retired people respectively of the Statistics on people entering retirement of the
German Annuity Insurance Federation:
The law effective 1 January 2001 replaces the previous differentiation between vocational disability pension and employment
disability pension by means of a two-level pension because of reduced earning capacity. Pensions because of diminution of ability to work are paid
as pension because of partly reduced earning capacity,
as pension because of fully reduced earning capacity and
as pension for miners' as well as
according to the regulations of the fifth chapter of the SGB VI as pension because of vocational
disability and as pension because of employment disability. Pensions because of diminution of ability to work are granted at
the longest up bis zum Erreichen der Regelaltersgrenze. After that only the payment of old-age pension is possible.
Salaried Employees' Pension Insurance
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In terms of the Statistics on those actively insured, on the rehabilitation services, on the number of retired people
and on people entering retirement of the German Annuity Insurance Federation:
On 1 January 2005 the statutory pension insurances for manual workers and for salaried employees have been combined to
form the general pension insurance. Starting from then no difference has been made between manual workers and salaried
employees in the statutory pension insurance.
Responsible for the fulfilment of the tasks of the statutory pension
insurance in the general pension insurance are the regional supporting organizations, the German Annuity Insurance Federation
and German pension insurance miners-railway-sea.
Up to 31 December 2004 the Salaried Employees' Pension Insurance was
the statutory pension insurance for employees and special groups of self-employed (for example artists). Supporting
organizations of the Salaried Employees' Pension Insurance were the Federal Insurance Institutions for Employees as
well as the railway insurance institution and Seamen's Accident Prevention and Insurance Association (Seekasse)
(for both: their field salaried employees' pension insurance).
Statutory pension insurance
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In terms of the Statistics on those actively insured, on the rehabilitation services, on the number of retired people and on
people entering retirement of the German Annuity Insurance Federation:
The statutory pension insurance is a branch of the social insurance. It protects the persons insured in case of danger or loss of
earning capacity, old age as well as their surviving dependants in case of death.
The responsibilities of the statutory pension insurance are:
Erbringungen von Leistungen zur Teilhabe,
calculation and payment of pensions and additional benefits,
the payment of contributions to the health insurance of the pensioners as well as
counseling and advise of the persons insured and the pensioners.
Effective from 2005 the organization of the statutory pension insurance was fundamentally restructured by the
"Gesetz zur Organisationsreform in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung".
By combination of the statutory pension insurance for manual workers and the statutory pension
insurance for salaried employees to the general pension insurance the statutory pension insurance
is today divided into only two insurance organizations: the general pension insurance and the miners' pension insurance.
Starting from 1 October 2005
the responsibilities of the statutory pension insurance have been fulfilled by two federal supporting organizations
as well as regional supporting organizations under the umbrella of the statutory pension insurance.
The federal supporting organizations are on the one hand the German Annuity Insurance Federation, which results from the
fusion of the Federal Insurance Institutions for Employees and the Association of German Annuity Insurance Institutions
and on the other hand the German pension insurance miners-railway-sea, which results from the fusion of the until then
independent insurance organizations railway insurance institution, federal miners' insurance (Bundesknappschaft)
and Seamen's Accident Prevention and Insurance Association (Seekasse). For the support of the persons insured in
the general pension insurance also the regional supporting organizations (former state insurance Institutions for employees) are responsible.
With the new organization the traditional separation between manual workers and salaried employees is abandoned.
Before that time the statutory pension insurance was organizationally divided into:
the statutory pension insurance for manual workers,
the statutory pension insurance for salaried employees and
the miners' pension insurance.
The Law of the statutory pension insurance is basically regulated in the Sixth Book of the Code of Social Law (SGB).
Regulations about measures to ensure participation that are applicable to the pension insurance are since 1 July 2001 also in the Code of Social Law ¿ book 9.
Comment(s)
Data from the reference date (December, 31) of the respective year.
Payments to locations abroad are included in the regions "Old Länder" or "Germany" respectively.
Refresh period of data
The table was extended by the year 2020 on 07 Oct 2021. Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.
1992
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