According to a Natixis and CoreData study, Iceland is the country where the material conditions of retirees are the best in the world.
What is the best country to retire? While the SNCF will strike on Tuesday against the pension reform, the bank Natixis has conducted a large international study on the quality of life of retirees.
Natixis compared 44 countries in the world based on four main criteria: material well-being, health (life expectancy and care system), finances (taxes and pension levels) and quality of life ( environment and pollution).
These criteria made it possible to establish a ranking of countries where life is good for its old age.
It's quite disappointing for France, who is 22nd out of 44, the average.
Why this place of "middle of table"? However, we often boast the quality of life in France which would be excellent.
She is excellent, we are indeed very well rated for all that is quality of life and even better on the criteria of health where we are fourth world.
On the other hand, there is a whole chapter that pleases us, that of Finance with several negative points. First, France is an indebted country which is not good for the future.
France is a country whose retirement system is fragile because of its demography, it is not good either.
And above all, France is a country where the tax burden is already maximum. We are penultimate on this criterion. The temptation is always strong to go to use by picking in the pocket of retirees (who have set aside). We have seen it recently with the rise of the CSG.
France is a country where life is good but a country whose finances are fragile which should worry future retirees.
Finally, reading this report, we think that restoring public finances is more important than creating a new point-based pension system.