Retiring abroad/Table

This table provides some background information for our article on Retiring abroad.

Only approximate This article was created in 2014 and is not often updated. It may not be entirely accurate today, and is certainly not complete; it is intended only as a general overview. For anything you are seriously concerned about, you should do your own more detailed research.

It was started from Wikipedia's List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita which gives four sets of estimates from various sources. Only one, the UN estimate, is used here. It is shown in the GDP column. The 30 most expensive countries have been removed.

The Global Peace Index gives numeric scores, of peace levels, where 1.0 would be ideal and a higher score indicates problems. In the 2017 data for 163 countries, the seventeen best scores are between 1.1 and 1.5 while the thirteen worst are between 3.0 and 3.8. The table shows 2013 scores in the GPI column. A few of the most dangerous countries have been removed.

The Social Progress Index tries to measure the overall level of good living for a population. In the 2014 results for 132 countries, the six lowest scores were in the 30s and the top 23 were in the 80s. Some of these scores are in the SPI column.

The next two columns indicate whether the country offers a retirement visa and if so, funds required, amounts in US $:

• Monthly: amount needed.
• Deposit: lump sum needed up front

Then there are columns for legal status of various things.

• Prostitution, from Prostitution by country
• Cannabis, from Legality of cannabis by country
• Homosexuality

An X indicates the activity is illegal. A tick indicates that the activity itself is legal, but various related things—for example, soliciting for prostitution, selling cannabis or gay marriage—may still be forbidden.

Table

Note that you can sort the table on any column, in ascending or descending order, by clicking on the little arrows in the column header.

Rank	Country	Statistics			Financial		Legal
		GDP	GPI	SPI	Monthly	Deposit	P	C	H
—	British Virgin Islands	32,375
31	Spain	29,278	1.57	81
—	Puerto Rico	28,021					X
32	Cyprus	26,462	1.94
—	French Polynesia	26,113
33	Saudi Arabia	25,136	2.47
—	Aruba	24,832
34	Oman	23,570	1.98
35	South Korea	23,052	1.82	77
36	Bahrain	23,039	2.40
—	Turks and Caicos	22,488					X	X
37	Greece	22,377	2.00	73
38	Slovenia	21,847	1.36
39	Bahamas	21,624
40	Malta	20,514
—	Anguilla	20,048
41	Portugal	20,006	1.26	80
42	Equatorial Guinea	19,680	1.93
43	Czech Republic	18,428	1.36	80
—	Netherlands Antilles	18,360
44	Trinidad and Tobago	17,365	2.10	70
45	Estonia	17,335	1.71
46	Slovakia	16,774	1.61
47	Barbados	16,000
49	Chile	15,363	1.60	76
—	Cook Islands	14,918
50	Gabon	14,747	2.05
51	Uruguay	14,703	1.71	78	800
52	Saint Kitts and Nevis	14,267
54	Lithuania	13,984	1.73
55	Latvia	13,773	1.67
56	Antigua and Barbuda	13,207
57	Croatia	13,105	1.67
58	Poland	12,820	1.68	77
—	Montserrat	12,774
59	Venezuela	12,767	2.65
60	Hungary	12,490	1.49	74
61	Kazakhstan	12,445	1.99
62	Nauru	12,022
63	Argentina	11,610	1.88
64	Brazil	11,347	2.20
65	Seychelles	11,164
66	Turkey	10,653	2.78
67	Malaysia	10,422	1.64	70	1500
68	Palau	10,271
69	Mexico	9,795	2.65	66	1000
70	Panama	9,534	1.84	73	1000
71	Costa Rica	9,387	1.70
72	Suriname	9,376					X
73	Mauritius	9,238	1.55
74	Lebanon	9,143	2.78
75	Romania	7,787	1.60
76	Colombia	7,752	2.78
77	Maldives	7,700
78	Grenada	7,418
79	Azerbaijan	7,383	2.43
80	South Africa	7,336	2.32	63
81	Saint Lucia	7,289
82	Iran	7,217	2.47					X
83	Botswana	7,191	1.62
84	Bulgaria	7,004	1.63
85	Dominica	6,958
86	Peru	6,825	1.99
87	Belarus	6,726	2.14
88	Montenegro	6,514	1.95
89	Turkmenistan	6,469	2.27
90	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6,349
91	Cuba	6,301	2.06
92	China	6,070	2.24
93	Thailand	5,775	2.29	65	1500
94	Dominican Republic	5,731	2.11
95	Namibia	5,668	1.84
96	Ecuador	5,648	1.95	68	800	-
97	Angola	5,586	2.12
98	Algeria	5,380	2.20					X
99	Jamaica	5,343	2.07				X
100	Serbia	5,315	1.89				X
101	East Timor	4,835
102	Belize	4,795			2000
103	Fiji	4,572
105	North Macedonia	4,548	2.13
106	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,517	2.04
107	Tonga	4,429
108	Jordan	4,414	2.09
109	Tunisia	4,150	1.98
110	Tuvalu	4,042
111	Paraguay	3,878	1.96	600
112	Ukraine	3,872	3.18
113	Cape Verde	3,850
114	Albania	3,809	1.91					X
115	El Salvador	3,790	2.24
116	Marshall Islands	3,773
117	Mongolia	3,673	1.80				X
118	Georgia	3,632	2.08
119	Samoa	3,607
120	Guyana	3,585	2.02				X
121	Indonesia	3,557	1.85	59
122	Republic of the Congo	3,404	2.33
123	Armenia	3,351	2.22
124	Guatemala	3,340	2.25	61	1000
125	Micronesia	3,165
126	Eswatini	3,137	2.01
127	Egypt	3,115	2.58
128	Vanuatu	3,040
129	Morocco	2,952	2.00
130	Sri Lanka	2,816	2.02	60	1500		X	X	X
131	Kosovo	2,813	2.01
132	Philippines	2,587	2.56	66	800	10,000
133	Bolivia	2,576	2.05	63
134	Bhutan	2,509	1.47
136	Honduras	2,339	2.19
137	Papua New Guinea	2,187	2.10
139	Moldova	2,064	1.94
140	Solomon Islands	1,837
141	Uzbekistan	1,801	2.13
141	Nicaragua	1,754	2.00
142	Kiribati	1,745
143	Vietnam	1,716	1.92
144	Ghana	1,605	1.79
145	Djibouti	1,583	2.20
146	Nigeria	1,555	2.85
147	Zambia	1,527	1.79
148	India	1,516	2.54	50					X
149	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,386
152	Laos	1,369	1.80	52
154	Cameroon	1,202	2.39
155	Pakistan	1,578	3.06	34			X	X	X
156	Lesotho	1,191	2.07
157	Kyrgyzstan	1,183	2.22
158	Myanmar	1,126	2.18
159	Mauritania	1,018	2.36
160	Senegal	1,017	1.93
161	Tajikistan	953	2.26
162	Cambodia	944	2.07	52
163	Kenya	943	2.34
165	Comoros	858
166	Bangladesh	822	2.04	52					X
167	Chad	818	2.50
168	Benin	752	2.01
169	Sierra Leone	725	1.76
170	Zimbabwe	718	2.35
171	Haiti	706	2.03				X
172	Mali	691	2.60
174	Nepal	656	2.08	52			X	X	X
175	Burkina Faso	649	2.07
176	Rwanda	620	2.23
177	Tanzania	608	1.88
178	Uganda	598	2.18
179	Togo	590	1.94
181	Mozambique	579	2.01
—	Zanzibar	565
182	Guinea	532	2.09
183	Gambia	512	2.21
184	Guinea-Bissau	510	2.31
185	Eritrea	507	2.51
186	Central African Republic	483	3.21
187	Madagascar	447	1.80	44
188	Niger	395	2.34
189	Liberia	356	2.02
190	Malawi	355	1.83