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 "id": "workplace-pension-participation-gb",
 "title": "Workplace pension participation, Great Britain",
 "category": "labour-market",
 "summary": "The share of eligible employees in Great Britain saving into a workplace pension each year since 2009, in all and in the private and public sectors, with the numbers saving, from DWP's workplace pension participation statistics, which it draws from the ONS's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.",
 "unit": "percent",
 "chart": "line",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "Official statistics",
 "notes": [
  "Eligible employees are those who meet automatic enrolment's age and earnings criteria. The shares are of eligible employees with a workplace pension, as DWP estimates them from the ONS's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, a 1% sample of jobs on PAYE, each April.",
  "DWP gives the numbers saving (meta, participating) rounded to the nearest thousand, for indicative purposes only: it says they should not be read as an accurate count of jobs. Its shares are given to the nearest percentage point.",
  "The ONS changed how it processes the survey from 2023 and cautions against comparing 2023 to 2025 with earlier years."
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  "publisher": "Department for Work and Pensions",
  "publisher_url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions",
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  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-08T13:23:11Z",
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  "latest_period": "2025",
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    "2009": 11435000.0,
    "2010": 11340000.0,
    "2011": 10969000.0,
    "2012": 10704000.0,
    "2013": 11458000.0,
    "2014": 13782000.0,
    "2015": 15370000.0,
    "2016": 15962000.0,
    "2017": 17672000.0,
    "2018": 18740000.0,
    "2019": 19241000.0,
    "2020": 19304000.0,
    "2021": 19968000.0,
    "2022": 20434000.0,
    "2023": 20909000.0,
    "2024": 21972000.0,
    "2025": 22610000.0
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    "2009": 6337000.0,
    "2010": 5989000.0,
    "2011": 5804000.0,
    "2012": 5896000.0,
    "2013": 6577000.0,
    "2014": 9117000.0,
    "2015": 10608000.0,
    "2016": 11179000.0,
    "2017": 12853000.0,
    "2018": 13877000.0,
    "2019": 14425000.0,
    "2020": 14166000.0,
    "2021": 14393000.0,
    "2022": 14997000.0,
    "2023": 15125000.0,
    "2024": 15836000.0,
    "2025": 16240000.0
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   "Public sector": {
    "2009": 5098000.0,
    "2010": 5351000.0,
    "2011": 5166000.0,
    "2012": 4808000.0,
    "2013": 4881000.0,
    "2014": 4665000.0,
    "2015": 4763000.0,
    "2016": 4783000.0,
    "2017": 4820000.0,
    "2018": 4863000.0,
    "2019": 4816000.0,
    "2020": 5138000.0,
    "2021": 5575000.0,
    "2022": 5437000.0,
    "2023": 5784000.0,
    "2024": 6135000.0,
    "2025": 6371000.0
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  "label": "Eligible employees saving into a workplace pension",
  "value": 90.0,
  "period": "2025",
  "note": "22,610,000 employees, rounded to the nearest thousand"
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     "x": "2011",
     "v": 56.0
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    {
     "x": "2012",
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    {
     "x": "2013",
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    {
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    {
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     "x": "2016",
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     "x": "2017",
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    {
     "x": "2018",
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    {
     "x": "2019",
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    {
     "x": "2020",
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    {
     "x": "2021",
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    {
     "x": "2022",
     "v": 88.0
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    {
     "x": "2023",
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    {
     "x": "2024",
     "v": 89.0
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    {
     "x": "2025",
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     "v": 44.0
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    {
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    {
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     "x": "2018",
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    {
     "x": "2024",
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    {
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