"Figure 1: Recent increases in workplace pension participation were caused by occupational defined contribution and group personal and group stakeholder memberships ","" "Proportion of employees with workplace pensions: by type of pension, UK, 1997 to 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Results for 2005 onwards are based on a new questionnaire and may not be comparable with earlier results. 2. The occupational defined contribution category includes employees who have pensions with the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest). The “group personal and group stakeholder” category includes group personal pensions, group stakeholder pensions and group self-invested personal pensions. " "Unit","%" "","" "Year ","Occupational defined benefit","Occupational defined contribution","Group personal and group stakeholder","Any pension" "1997","45.7","8.7","0.8","55.2" "1998","44.5","9.3","0.8","54.7" "1999","43.8","7.9","3.5","55.2" "2000","43.2","7.5","4.6","55.3" "2001","42.0","7.6","5.7","55.3" "2002","41.6","7.5","7.6","56.6" "2003","40.7","8.0","7.6","56.3" "2004","38.8","7.3","7.7","53.7" "2005","35.3","6.7","8.5","53.2" "2006","34.3","7.3","9.7","54.3" "2007","33.4","6.4","9.8","52.3" "2008","32.8","6","9.8","50.9" "2009","32.9","6.1","10.1","50.1" "2010","32.1","6.4","10","49.7" "2011","30.4","6.3","10","47.6" "2012","28.0","7.0","10.2","46.5" "2013","29.4","8.4","11.6","49.8" "2014","29.1","13.8","15.7","59.3" "2015","28.3","16.3","18","63.5" "2016","28.5","18.5","18.7","66.9" "2017","28.2","22.9","20.4","72.9" "2018","27.8","25.9","20.9","76.2" "2019","26.8","27.7","21.6","77.4"