Under the intermediate assumptions of the program's trustees, the number of beneficiaries will have roughly doubled by 2030, and the ratio of covered workers to  BIS Review 27/2005  1  beneficiaries will be down to about 2.
Emerging-market economies now account for close to 80 per cent of global growth – up from just one-third at the start of the millennium. Improved economic management in emerging markets has both increased their potential growth and reduced their riskiness.