Countries chosen from where pensions are actually paid, not from opinion.
These are the countries we cover for retirees moving abroad from the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia or New Zealand, and the United States for Americans moving within it. Abroad, the countries come from where US Social Security pays beneficiaries — not from a magazine's idea of a nice place. Each country is graded by how much we can actually verify, and the ones we can't verify say so.
See every country on a map Coloured by price level, against a world average of 100- Full profiles 36 · 33 planned, no towns yet
- Enough verified data to compare on cost, healthcare, climate and residency.
- Outline 12
- The reader chose this country and we cannot source it honestly yet, so the page says so. That is the product working, not a placeholder.
- No retirement route 19
- No retiree-specific pathway exists. Each of these is a short sourced page saying when the route closed and what remains — the honest answer to a real question.
- Untiered 2
- These pages work; the tier verdict has not been recorded. Grouped rather than dropped, because dropping one would hide a page that serves.
Regions follow the UN M49 standard (UN Statistics Division, read Oct 19, 2026), with the Americas split into its own sub-regions. Taiwan, which M49 does not list, is placed by our own ruling.
Europe
27 countriesAustria
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedBelgium
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedBosnia and Herzegovina
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedBulgaria
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedCroatia
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedCzechia
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedDenmark
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedFinland
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedFrance
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedGermany
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedGreece
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedHungary
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedIreland
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedItaly
Full profile planned Retirement residence routeMalta
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedMontenegro
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedNetherlands
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedNorway
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedPoland
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedPortugal
Full profile Retirement residence routeRomania
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedSerbia
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedSlovakia
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedSpain
Full profile Retirement residence routeSweden
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedSwitzerland
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedUnited Kingdom
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedLatin America and the Caribbean
20 countriesArgentina
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedBarbados
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedBelize
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedBolivia
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedBrazil
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedChile
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedColombia
Full profile planned Retirement residence routeCosta Rica
Full profile planned Retirement residence routeDominican Republic
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedEcuador
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedEl Salvador
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedGuatemala
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedHonduras
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedJamaica
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedMexico
Full profile Retirement residence routeNicaragua
Untiered Residency route not yet sourcedPanama
Full profile planned Retirement residence routePeru
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedTrinidad and Tobago
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedUruguay
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedAsia
18 countriesChina
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedCyprus
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedHong Kong
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedIndia
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedIndonesia
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedIsrael
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedJapan
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedJordan
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedLebanon
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedMalaysia
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedPakistan
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedPhilippines
Full profile planned Residency route not yet sourcedSingapore
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedSouth Korea
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedTaiwan
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedThailand
Full profile planned Retirement residence routeTurkey
Outline Residency route not yet sourcedVietnam
No retirement route Residency route not yet sourcedNorthern America
2 countriesOceania
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