Denmark leads European pensions rankings

Portugal, the top ranked country in last year’s inaugural Barometer, slipped to 13th place this year due to improvements in demography and private pension provision by other countries and the influx of new countries into the scope of the survey. Two EU accession countries – Estonia and Latvia – are among the top four. Both countries relegated the Netherlands and the UK to fifth and sixth place respectively in the survey. The UK pension system ranks sixth out of 25, despite the fact that the UK has the least generous state pension system in the EU. This is because of relatively favourable d...