Retirement Ages Around the World

[Ben]

I found this interesting. It appears to be "official" retirement ages for various countries. The most interesting part to me was the retirement age in places like Russia and China.  I would actually have expected those values to be the same or higher than US values. Without looking at longevity charts, I don't think they are much different than US longevity. Lower ages in countries in Africa or other third world areas would have been less surprising to me, given the lower longevity.

https://aperioncare.com/blog/retirement-age-around-world/

[Scout26]

Without Life Expectancy data, that chart is fairly worthless.

Also with life spans increasing using a number that was for 1880's (when very, very very, few people lived that long), is going to cause a global implosion as fewer and fewer people are working to support those that are retired.

[Northwoods]

Also, official retirement ages don't really mean much if you're too poor to retire. Also, even with the USA being 65-67, many people retire before that age.  So that means that the actual average retirement age the USA might not really be all that different, and could possibly actually be lower than in Western Europe.

[lee n. field]

Without Life Expectancy data, that chart is fairly worthless.

Also with life spans increasing using a number that was for 1880's (when very, very very, few people lived that long), is going to cause a global implosion as fewer and fewer people are working to support those that are retired.

My take, looking at the map, is that higher retirement age maps pretty closely to longer lifespan.  Mostly.  What's up with Afganistan, Madigascar, and Botswana and Nigeria?  An official retirement age that amounts to a seldom encountered technical formality?

[Ben]

Wikipedia, but life expectancy by country. China's official retirement age is still pretty low for their 76 year life expectancy. US is 79 (both sexes average).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy