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At the end of 2019, total number of
participants in the Individual Pension System
(BES) stood at 6 million 859 thousand
people, while number of Auto-Enrollment

Participants reached 6 million 18. During
2019, total fund size of BES reached 16
billion 855 million USD; and fund size gained

from auto-enrollment participants reached 1
billion 375 million USD.

he BES system decreased by 0.3 percent compared to the end of
previous year and stood at 6 million 859 thousand. On the contra-
ry, number of people that joined the system via auto-enrollment
(OKS) increased by 20.52 percent, reaching 6 million 18.

At the end of 2019, total fund size of BES participants stood at
16 billion 855 million USD, and fund size of OKS participants at
1 billion 374 million USD.

Contributions collected from BES participants reached 11 million
305 million USD with 8 million 181 pension contracts at the end
of 2019. (USD/TRY parity at the end of 2019 was 5.9311; com-
pared to 5.2984 at the end of 2018)

Number of BES Number of OKS Number of BES Number of OKS Fund size in Fund size in Amount of Amount of
Participants participants contracts contracts BES (USD) OKS (USD) contributions in contributions in
BES (USD) OKS (USD)
Q1 2017 6.748.008 669.126 7.930.206 671.823 15.651.041.394 29.304.587 12.632.731.297 30.690.503
Q2 2017 6.811.854 2.515.627 8.002.344 2.537.218 17.211.959.226 170.082.539 13.614.496.599 169.735.830
At the end of 2019, number of BES Q3 2017 6.842.125 3.276.116 8.044.638 3.342.209 17.813.330.203 337.644.739 14.070.473.945 330.852.738

participants stands at 6 million 859 Q4 2017 6.922.615 3.417.003 8.166.075 3.497.574 17.884.795.945 473.817.633 13.883.459.625 455.273.574
13.715.181.253
579.764.072
609.103.768
Q1 2018
17.714.604.443
6.948.200
3.967.234
3.849.932
8.204.183
thousand, while number of auto- Q2 2018 6.984.044 4.112.680 8.264.862 4.267.610 11.847.117.555 511.474.280 9.379.092.731 485.723.516
4.959.053
637.849.731
12.779.413.568
8.225.959
9.610.424.757
599.022.018
Q3 2018
6.946.230
5.147.535
enrollment participants reaches 6 Q4 2018 6.875.886 4.990.786 8.155.521 5.190.546 14.504.725.683 871.210.710 11.043.366.828 785.595.347
796.070.657
5.265.435
10.562.511.840
974.857.772
5.475.095
Q1 2019
6.813.935
8.090.372
14.186.227.899
million 18 thousand Q2 2019 6.806.192 5.460.747 8.091.432 5.725.009 14.902.722.627 1.094.562.477 10.618.014.793 885.781.733
Q3 2019 6.799.327 5.739.026 8.090.479 6.078.032 16.377.288.213 1.281.705.994 11.235.816.039 1.014.249.987
Q4 2019 6.859.207 6.018.363 8.181.116 6.403.252 16.855.027.427 1.374.707.630 11.305.998.563 1.070.457.192
Reference: Pension Monitoring Center