published Feb 10th 2017, 11:11 am, by Wei Lu and Vincent Del Giudice

(Bloomberg) —
If you’re looking to retire, you may want to avoid these countries. With the world’s working-age population shrinking faster than expected, fewer people are left to support a growing number of seniors, according to the Bloomberg Sunset Index. Seniors in France, where the retirement age is 61.6 years is the least supported, with a ratio of about two workers to each retiree, the index shows. In the U.S., the ratio is 4.4 to one.

(Singapore was removed due to inconsistencies between the statutory pensionable age as published in the “Social Security Programs Throughout the World” report by the U.S. Social Security Administration and the Singapore Ministry of Manpower’s retirement age.)

–With assistance from Sam Dodge.To contact the reporters on this story: Wei Lu in New York at wlu30@bloomberg.net ;Vincent Del Giudice in Denver at vdelgiudice@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Sophie Caronello at scaronello@bloomberg.net ;David Papadopoulos at papadopoulos@bloomberg.net Melinda Grenier

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