◆ Reference: International Comparison

(The social security expenditures of countries have not been revised, figures are the same as those used in the 1997 edition.)

Table 5 International Comparison of Social Security Expenditure by category as a percentage of National Income

Reference:	Calculations for each fiscal year for each country are based on the average of each country's yearly exchange market, such that the U.S.A. figure is 442,461 yen, the U.K. figure is 378,326 yen, the German figure is 667,246 yen, the French figure is 674,140 yen and the Swedish figure is 910,585 yen.
Note:	The above figures for each country are based on the ILO's Social Security Survey, and the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research has taken the estimates made by each country; therefore there may be discrepancies with the figures published by the ILO.

Table 6 Social Security Expenditure as percentage of National Income and international comparison of elderly population

Note:

There was no data available for social security expenditure for the U.S.A.. The figure for FY1992 was used as reference (*). Data for elderly population rate is the same as used in Table 9.

Figure 3 International comparison of the elderly population and Social Security Expenditure (1960,1965,1970,1975,1980-1993, however, the most recent figure for Japan is for FY1997)

Notes:	1.	The figures for Germany are of the former West Germany up to 1990 and the united Germany (including the former East Germany) from 1991.
	2.	1960,1965 and 1993 data is unavailable for figures for U.S.A.

Figure 4 International comparison of Social Security Revenue by source (Since social security revenues for countries have not been revised, figures are the same as those used in the 1997 edition.)

Notes:	1.	Social Security Revenue is compiled based on ILO standards and classification (excluding transfer from other schemes).
	2.	Social Security Revenue consists of source of revenue for social security expenditure and source of revenue for administration costs of each scheme.
	3.	In the case of Germany, "Other public authorities' participation" is included in "State participation."

Note:

Due to the rounding of fractions (decimals), addition of the percentages will not total 100.0%.

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