Movement of British State Pensioners throughout the World

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Movement of British State Pensioners to other EU  STATES and other countries of the world

The first Chart below shows the increase of  British State Pensioners who moved to other States of the EU between 1973 to 2014.











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The table lower down gives figures for movements  in Europe and other parts of the world. Those countries with a * have State pensions increased each year - the others have the British State pensions frozen.

Some observations.

New Zealand
The largest number of retired British citizens emigrating during 2013/14 went to New Zealand.  In N.Z the British State pension is frozen  - but......
New Zealand residents are entitled to receive NZ Super (the old age pension) if they satisfy all of the following conditions. They must:

• have reached State pension age (currently age 65);
• be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident;
• live in New Zealand;
• have lived in New Zealand for at least 10 years since age 20; or
• have lived in New Zealand for at least 5 years since age 50.

Residence in a country with which New Zealand has reciprocal social security arrangements (like Australia and the UK) counts as residence in New Zealand.
---------------  New Zealand is moreover the most ‘English’ of all destinations.

This is probably a significant reason why the influx of British State Pensioners is constantly rising in New Zealand.
 CANADA - SOUTH AFRICA - AUSTRALIA  In these countries the State Pension is frozen and their appears to be no adequate compensation scheme to offset this.  No doubt this is why the numbers are dropping.
PAKISTAN and JAMAICA and INDIA - Although Jamaica has non-frozen pensions, the numbers have dropped year on year.  Pakistan also shows a year on year decline.- possibly there is a cultural reason?
India (with frozen pensions) shows an increase - again is the reason cultural, but opposite to that of Pakistan and more akin to the reasons why so many native stock Britons retire abroad especially to culturally similar countries?
ITALY and USA In  MAY 2013 ( see the last column of figures) these countries achieved a higher figure and have since declined by tiny numbers.
NEW ZEALAND, IRELAND and FRANCE have received the greatest number of immigrant retired British citizens since MAY 2013 with 3480, 2140 and 1740 people respectively.
N.B. not all British State Pensioners are British Citizens, this is probably chiefly true of the Irish situation.
Remember that these figures include the death rate (which is fairly high amongst pensioners). so the changes in numbers reflect the fact that movements from the UK are a good deal higher than those shown.
The overall percentage of British pensioners abroad has risen gradually year on year and is now 9.49%.

EMIGRATION of British STATE PENSIONERS
Country of  Immigration	% change 2002-2014	Number in 2002	Number in Feb 2013	Numbers in May 2013	Number in Feb 2014	% change 2013-2014	difference between May 2013 and Feb 2014
Jamaica*	-39.0%	23420	17690	17560	16850	-5.0%	-710
Pakistan	-47.6%	5920	4120	4100	4010	-2.7%	-90
Canada	4.9%	144830	154870	155040	152250	-1.7%	-2790
South Africa	6.3%	34960	37670	37780	37330	-0.9%	-450
Australia	10.4%	224210	250770	250990	250300	-0.2%	-690
Italy*	21.1%	30080	38160	38170	38130	-0.1%	-40
USA*	14.3%	120350	140270	140520	140410	0.1%	-110
India	25.2%	3950	5190	5210	5280	1.7%	70
Spain*	55.1%	48000	106280	106850	106890	0.6%	40
Cyprus*	57.0%	7920	18270	18380	18440	0.9%	60
Ireland*	30.1%	92520	129320	130190	132330	2.3%	2140
Germany*	33.4%	27350	39990	40330	41070	2.6%	740
Israel*	27.2%	3640	4920	4950	5000	1.6%	50
Greece*	61.9%	2190	5600	5650	5750	2.6%	100
Portugal*	52.3%	4760	9680	9780	9980	3.0%	200
France*	68.2%	19770	59620	60350	62090	4.0%	1740
N.Z.	34.9%	38640	55990	55900	59380	5.7%	3480
Switzerland*	65.1%	3910	10700	10820	11190	4.4%	370
Netherlands*	47.9%	6240	11420	11600	11980	4.7%	380