Since the beginning of the year, the Portuguese can retire three months earlier than before.
A piece of trompe-l'oeil news, which reflects the decline in life expectancy, a consequence of the Covid, on which the legal retirement age is indexed.
This is still 66 years and 4 months since a reform adopted in 2014.
Most European countries have reformed, some several times, their pension systems in recent years.
All are faced with the same diagnosis of aging of their population and imbalance between working people and retirees, threatening the financing of pensions.
To put it schematically, we will go from 3 assets for one retiree today to 1.8 on average across the European Union by 2070, according to the Commission.
“Countries are all faced with the challenge of the aging population for their pension system, but not in the same proportions,”
tempers Hervé Boulhol, economist at the OECD.
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