The 2018 Ageing Report Underlying Assumptions & Projection Methodologies

This report has been prepared as part of the mandate the Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Council gave to the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) in 2015 to update and further deepen its common exercise of age-related expenditure projections, on the basis of a new population projection by Eurostat.
The forthcoming report with the long-term projections, the sixth edition, of the budgetary impact of the ageing population in the 28 EU Member States over the period 2016–2070 will be calculated on the basis of the macroeconomic assumptions and the methodology described in this report, is envisaged to be presented to the ECOFIN Council in Spring 2018.