State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

(asked on 16th March 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Portrait
Margaret Ferrier
(Independent - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of a UK pension live in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK by (a) the country they live in and (b) their gender.

Answered by
Laura Trott Portrait
Laura Trott
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 23rd March 2023

This information is published on Stat-Xplore https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk and currently extends to November 2020.

The number of people in receipt of a UK State Pension living in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK is 298,294.

The breakdown by country and gender are shown in the tables below:

Country of State Pension receipt

Male

Female

Antigua

141

166

Albania

8

7

Algeria

13

5

Andorra

91

74

Anguilla

33

48

Antilles (Netherlands)

20

19

Argentina

128

132

Aruba

..

6

Ascension Island

7

..

Australia

100,047

122,289

Bahamas

116

139

Bahrain

79

48

Bangladesh

175

795

Belize

57

38

Bolivia

17

12

Botswana

89

55

Brazil

485

284

Brunei

16

8

Burkina Faso

..

..

Burma (Myanmar)

..

..

Cameroon

6

5

Cape Verde Islands

..

6

Cayman Islands

111

78

Chile

168

141

China People's Republic

249

74

Colombia

128

127

Cook Islands

9

..

Costa Rica

65

38

Dom Commonwealth (Dominica)

217

244

Dominican Republic

26

17

Country of State Pension receipt

Male

Female

Ecuador

54

33

Egypt

189

116

El Salvador

8

5

Equatorial Guinea

..

..

Ethiopia

22

7

Falkland Islands & Dep

47

26

Faroe Islands

5

7

Fiji

63

28

French Polynesia

..

..

Gambia

44

23

Ghana

451

388

Greenland

..

..

Grenada

402

500

Guatemala

7

5

Guyana

110

101

Honduras

6

8

Hong Kong

1,510

904

India

2,145

2,113

Indonesia

314

42

Iran

21

11

Iraq

5

..

Japan

4,644

2,158

Jordan

72

46

Kampuchea

40

..

Kenya

345

305

Kuwait

10

5

Laos

19

..

Lebanon

73

49

Lesotho

6

7

Macau

7

..

Country of State Pension receipt

Male

Female

Malagasy Republic

6

5

Malawi

39

31

Malaysia

1,072

1,159

Mexico

241

228

Monaco

246

143

Montserrat

29

40

Morocco

112

70

Mozambique

9

..

Namibia

49

42

Nepal

29

13

Nevis, St Kitts-Nevis

131

148

New Caledonia

8

10

Nicaragua

15

6

Nigeria

1,090

804

Norfolk Island

..

..

Oman

71

29

Pakistan

1,103

1,579

Panama

23

14

Papua New Guinea

8

5

Paraguay

14

8

Peru

66

64

Qatar

41

15

Republic of Azerbaijan

11

..

Republic of Belarus

13

12

Republic of Georgia

19

..

Republic of Kazakhstan

12

..

Republic of Kyrgyzstan

5

..

Republic of Moldova

5

..

Republic of Yemen

172

501

Russian Federation

95

41

San Marino

..

..

Saudi Arabia

75

20

Senegal

..

8

Seychelles

73

78

Sierra Leone

18

27

Singapore

514

359

Country of State Pension receipt

Male

Female

Solomon Islands

..

..

Somalia

9

13

South Africa

12,932

17,411

South Korea

288

91

Sri Lanka

557

572

St Helena & Deps

56

48

St Lucia

376

454

St Vincents & Grenadines

221

229

Sudan

5

..

Surinam

5

..

Swaziland

42

37

Syria

5

..

Tahiti

7

..

Taiwan

88

20

Tanzania

54

23

Thailand

4,777

586

Togo

..

..

Tonga

8

6

Trinidad & Tobago

456

843

Tunisia

62

53

Turks & Caicos Islands

17

6

Uganda

47

26

Ukraine

59

33

United Arab Emirates

431

180

United States Minor Outlying Islands

..

5

Uruguay

35

27

Vanuatu

24

13

Venezuela

24

16

Vietnam

105

14

Virgin Islands (British)

28

19

Western Samoa

..

..

Zambia

79

86

Zimbabwe

311

546

Please note:

1. The ".." denotes a nil or negligible number of claimants or award amount based on a nil or negligible number of claimants.

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