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Guidance: Ogden tables: actuarial compensation tables for injury and death

Government Actuarys Department

January 9
12:05 2025

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These tables, complete with explanatory notes, are an aid for actuaries, lawyers and others when calculating the lump sum to be paid in compensation for financial losses or expenses (such as care costs) directly caused by personal injury or death.

Widely known as the Ogden tables, they are prepared by an inter-disciplinary working party of actuaries, lawyers, accountants and insurers. They are currently in their eighth edition.

The tables of multipliers in the updated 8th edition of the Ogden Tables provide multipliers at a selection of rates of return, including +0.5% (the rate now applicable in England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). There has been no change to the text of the Explanatory note.

An updated set of Additional Tables to the 8th edition of the Ogden Tables have been published which provide multipliers at 0% and +0.5% in an alternative format. These can be used to capitalise multiplicands payable from any age at the date of trial to any future age (up to age 125). The Additional Tables can also be used to derive multipliers for multiplicands payable starting from a future age for any age at the date of trial.

The updated 8th edition of the Ogden Tables and the updated Additional Tables are only available via the links above; they will not be available in hard copy from The Stationery Office.

Previous editions can be found on Ogden Tables (previous editions) actuarial compensation tables for injury and death.

Updates to this page

Published 10 October 2011
Last updated 9 January 2025 +show all updates
  1. Updated Additional tables at +0.5%.

  2. Latest Ogden Tables published as of August 2022 to include the change in the discount rate for Northern Ireland.

  3. Updated 8th edition to include the change in discount rate in Northern Ireland.

  4. Previous editions of Ogden tables moved to new page.

  5. GAD publishes 8th edition of the Ogden Tables

  6. New supplementary tables for 2019

  7. Latest Ogden Tables 7th edition: Supplementary Tables in PDF and Excel version are now available.

  8. Latest Ogden Tables: 7th Edition Supplementary Tables in PDF and Excel format now available.

  9. Links to all previous versions added.

  10. Added link to previous versions of the tables on the archived GAD website

  11. First published.

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