Highest Retirement Age
Understand highest retirement age: what the measure counts, how to read it and where to check the source.
Retirement ages depend on the pension scheme, birth cohort and sometimes occupation or sex. The statutory pension age is not necessarily the age people actually leave work. Early-retirement provisions and contribution requirements complicate comparisons. Announced reforms also need to be separated from rules already in force.
About the data
Normal retirement age differs by sex, birth cohort and years of contributions; effective labour-market exit age is another measure. Saved definition/year missing.
The Country10s question
Countries with the oldest retirement age *APOLOGIES - Yesterdays countries were incorrect, there was a bug in the database :(*
Reading the source
Normal retirement age differs by sex, birth cohort and years of contributions; effective labour-market exit age is another measure. Saved definition/year missing.
The original source edition for this saved game was not retained. The link is a reference for understanding the measure, not proof that the saved answer order is a current world ranking. No unverified top-ten table is presented here.
Source: OECD Pensions at a Glance 2023