All You Need To Know About the World’s Social Security Systems

The Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index gave Denmark an “A” for its pension system while the United States has a “C.” (I know I recently suggested ranking systems are not dependable but still, let’s look at this one.)

From: Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index 2014

The criteria were adequacy, sustainability and integrity.

From: Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index 2014

Below, for adequacy (red), sustainability (yellow) and Integrity (blue), you can see how the U.S. (#13) and 24 other countries fared:

From: Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index 2014

Our Bottom Line: Entitlements Criteria

Just think adequacy, sustainability and integrity, Denmark #1 and the U.S. #13 and you have pretty much all you need to know about the world’s social security systems.

Tomorrow, we will have Part 2 and some specific reasons that the Dutch system is ranked so high and the U.S. is so low.