Guidance

Ogden tables: actuarial compensation tables for injury and death

The 'Ogden' tables help actuaries, lawyers and others calculate the lump sum compensation due in personal injury and fatal accident cases.

• From: Government Actuary's Department
• Published: 10 October 2011
• Last updated: 11 August 2022 — See all updates

Documents

Actuarial tables for use in personal injury and fatal accident cases - 8th edition (updated August 2022) (pdf)

PDF, 4.49 MB, 110 pages

Actuarial tables for use in personal injury and fatal accident cases - 8th edition: Tables 1 to 36 (updated August 2022) (Excel)

ODS, 377 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Actuarial tables for use in personal injury and fatal accident cases - 8th edition: Additional Tables (updated August 2022) (Excel)

ODS, 439 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Details

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.

Under the Damages (Return on Investment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022, made under section 1 of the Damages Act 1996, the prescribed discount rate to be taken into account by the courts in Northern Ireland when assessing lump sum damages awards for personal injury was raised from -1.75% to -1.5% with effect from 22 March 2022. The text of the Explanatory notes has been updated.

The tables of multipliers in the updated 8th edition of the Ogden Tables provide multipliers at a selection of rates of return including minus 0.25% (the rate currently applicable in England and Wales), minus 0.75% (the rate currently applicable in Scotland) and minus 1.5% (the rate currently applicable in Northern Ireland).

An updated set of Additional Tables to the 8th edition of the Ogden Tables have also been published which provide multipliers at minus 1.5%, minus 0.75%, minus 0.25% and 0% 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.

Published 10 October 2011
Last updated 11 August 2022 + show all updates

1. 11 August 2022

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

2. 27 May 2021

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

3. 29 October 2020

   Previous editions of Ogden tables moved to new page.

4. 17 July 2020

   GAD publishes 8th edition of the Ogden Tables

5. 23 July 2019

   New supplementary tables for 2019

6. 15 March 2017

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

7. 14 March 2017

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

8. 10 June 2014

   Links to all previous versions added.

9. 19 November 2013

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

10. 10 October 2011

    First published.