Koreans aged 32 or younger may not get any state pensions from 2055
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According to the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) on Thursday, the NPS is projected to register a deficit by 2039 with its asset reserves depleted by 2055 from peak at 1,027 trillion won ($842.2 billion) in 2030.
Contributions from 100 adults to the NPS supported 19.4 elderly people as of 2020, but the number jumps to five-time larger 93.1 by 2050. At this rate, those aged 32 or younger would not receive monthly pension when they become eligible for the state support at the age of 65 by 2055.
State pensions are not enough to support senior citizens even now. As of 2018, elderly people in Korea earned 25.9 percent of their income from monthly pensions, less than half of the average 56.1 percent ratio of the five major countries – the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and Japan.
Income from private pension programs also took up smaller 22.1 percent.
Aged Koreans thus are struggling to earn a living. Earned income took up more than half of their total monthly income, or 52 percent.
Outlook also is dimmer for the country already grappling with low birth rates and fast aging.
The number of contributors to the NPS totaled 22,108,067 as of the end of September 2021, adding a mere 1,000 from late 2020. The number of the economically active population also is expected to keep falling, with the ratio of those aged 15-64 down from 72.1 percent in 2020 to 66.0 percent in 2030 and 46.1 percent in 2070.
“With a fundamental change in policy and situation, contributors will keep decreasing,” said KERI.
As the country’s monthly premium rate has been maintained at 9 percent for more than 20 years since the first rise in 1998 from 3 percent, some experts advise to up the rate to 12 percent while reducing the benefit.
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