European Central Bank — Pension funds number of members (PFBM)
Pension funds number of members (PFBM) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PFBM dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csvdata) and JSON (?format=jsondata); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters. Browse and chart the same series on the ECB Data Portal.
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Data schema (26 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Annual) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | 21 codes (e.g. Austria, Belgium, Cyprus) |
| REPORTING_SECTOR | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Pension funds) |
| PF_MEMBER_TYPEPension funds members | dimension | 4 codes (e.g. Active members, Deferred members, retired members) |
| TIME_PERIODTime period or range | time | Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params. |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | The observed numeric value for each cell. |
| TIME_FORMATTime format code | attribute | — |
| BREAKS | attribute | — |
| COMMENT_TSSeries comment including brief description of the underlying statistic | attribute | — |
| COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation | attribute | — |
| COVERAGE | attribute | — |
| DATA_COMPUnderlying compilation | attribute | — |
| DECIMALS | attribute | — |
| DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation | attribute | — |
| PUBL_ECBSource publication (ECB only) | attribute | — |
| PUBL_MUSource publication (Euro area only) | attribute | — |
| PUBL_PUBLICSource publication (public) | attribute | — |
| REF_PERIOD_DETAILReference period detail | attribute | — |
| TIME_PER_COLLECTTime period collection | attribute | — |
| TITLE | attribute | — |
| TITLE_COMPLTitle complement | attribute | — |
| UNIT | attribute | — |
| UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier | attribute | — |
| OBS_STATUSObservation status | attribute | — |
| CONF_STATUSConfidentiality status | attribute | — |
| PRE_BREAK_VALUE | attribute | — |
Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.
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Sample data (5 records)
| FREQ | REF_AREA | REPORTING_SECTOR | PF_MEMBER_TYPE | TIME_PERIOD | OBS_VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | AT | S129 | A | 2025 | 831067 |
| A | AT | S129 | D | 2025 | 143514 |
| A | AT | S129 | R | 2025 | 159983 |
| A | AT | S129 | _T | 2025 | 1134564 |
| A | BE | S129 | A | 2025 | 1339283 |
Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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Query examples
curl -s 'https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/dataflow/ECB' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.sdmx.structure+xml;version=2.1'All dataflows (datasets) published by this agency, as SDMX-ML.
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