Invalidity insurance (IV/AI) pensions by place of residence and nationality
bsv-iv-pensions
- Publisher
- BSV/OFAS/UFAS (via OFS/BFS)
- Access method
api- Endpoint
- https://dam-api.bfs.admin.ch/hub/api/dam/assets/orderNr:su-d-13.04.02-bsv-iv-5.02.01/master
- Table id
su-d-13.04.02-bsv-iv-5.02.01- Licence
- Still to be confirmed with the BSV: BSV statistics distributed by the BFS; the DAM metadata states no terms of use. Figures are quoted with the source named until BSV confirms the terms.
- Coverage
- Geography Switzerland and abroad (place of residence of the pensioner) · referenceDay December · from 2009 · to 2025
- Gaps
- No age, sex or cause breakdown in this table (the causes are in bsv-iv-causes, for pensioners in Switzerland). Children's pensions are paid to pensioners for their children and are not counted as pensioners.
- Used on
- WORK, PROB health.invalidity-insurance
- Known limits
- One invalidity pension per pensioner; a pension can be partial (a quarter to a full pension, or a percentage since the 2022 reform), so many pensioners also work part time and are counted among the employed in the labour force survey: do not subtract pensioners from the employed or add them to other benefits. The rate per 100 residents aged 18–64 is Votara’s approximation of the BSV insured population (18 to the AHV reference age; women born before 1961 reached it at 64); BSV publishes its own invalidity rates in its yearly IV statistics report, which may differ slightly. Pensions paid abroad (26 738 in December 2025) go to pensioners who live outside Switzerland; they are not residents and are not in the rate. Cross-check result on 2026-11-02: T5.2.1 and T6.2.1 agree in every year 2013–2025 (233 843 pensioners in Switzerland in December 2025).
- Processed file
- data/processed/bsv-iv-pensions.csv
How current is this data?
- Freshness
- Up to date
According to its update rhythm, no newer edition is expected yet.
- Period covered
- 2009–2025
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Yearly
Ledger note (in English): Yearly, in May of the next year (2025 data on 26.05.2026, "Stand 13.05.2026").
- Votara checks the source
- Every week, and every day from 3 days before to 14 days after an announced publication date
The state is computed each time the site is built; this page shows it as of . Results of the accuracy checks
Transformations
- XLSX su-d-13.04.02-bsv-iv-5.02.01 (current edition via the DAM orderNr URL), one sheet per year, table T5.2.1 "BezügerInnen": lines "Total Invalidenrente", "Kinderrente (Vater)" and "Kinderrente (Mutter)"; columns located by the sub-header "Schweizer | Ausländer | Total" (in Switzerland, abroad) and the overall total after it. Script: scripts/fetch/bsv-iv-pensions.ts
- Checks (the fetch fails otherwise): Swiss + foreign = total in and outside Switzerland, Switzerland + abroad = total. Rows residence total × nationality swiss / foreign are the sums of the two places of residence.
- Derived by Votara for residence = switzerland: per_100_aged_18_64 = invalidity pensions ÷ permanent residents aged 18–64 of the same nationality category on 31 December of the same year (bfs-statpop-age-structure) × 100, two decimals.
- Cross-check on every fetch: the invalidity pensions in Switzerland equal the pensioners of BSV table T6.2.1 (bsv-iv-causes) in every year 2013–2025; a difference is a warning in the nightly summary and an error in the accuracy checks.