Global Retirement Security Ranking 2017

Retirement security is challenged on many fronts across the globe. Slow growth, low-interest rates, and the looming threat of inflation stretch the economics of retirement funding. 

The fifth annual Global Retirement Index ranking from Natixis Global Asset Management has Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland holding on to the top three slots from 2016.

The ranking creates an overall retirement security score for each country from 18 performance indicators that address finances, health care, material well-being, and quality of life.

 Countries are also ranked by those four sub-indexes. Of the 25 countries with the highest overall scores, the US and Austria saw the biggest annual declines this year.

Here are the countries that score the highest for how well their citizens are set up to enjoy a comfortable retirement.