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Extract taken from chapter 3 of the Economic Survey of Portugal 2004. An ageing population is bound to make increasing demands on public finances to finance pensions and health care. The required reform should go much further that the measures taken over the past few years for the private and the public employees pension schemes. Raising the retirement age, modifying replacement rates and changing indexation of pension benefits are some of the options to consider.