{"id":35384,"date":"2011-05-06T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35384"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:14:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:14:39","slug":"cross-national-comparisons-of-years-in-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/06\/cross-national-comparisons-of-years-in-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-National Comparisons of Years in Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does American prosperity translate into long retirements? \u00a0Not compared to other developed countries in the world. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2011\/04\/07\/who-spends-the-most-years-in-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flowing Data<\/a> borrowed OECD numbers on life expectancy and age of retirement to calculate the average number of years in retirement for men and women across many different countries. \u00a0The portion of each bar with the line is the average number of years working, while the non-lined portion represents years in retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Largely because of life expectancy, women enjoy more years than men in all states except Turkey, but the number of years varies quite tremendously, from an average of zero years for men in Mexico, to an average of 26 years for women in Austria and Italy. \u00a0The United States is way down on this list, not doing so well relatively after all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35385\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/1.gif\" width=\"518\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/1.gif 575w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/1-283x500.gif 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does American prosperity translate into long retirements? \u00a0Not compared to other developed countries in the world. \u00a0Flowing Data borrowed OECD numbers on life expectancy and age of retirement to calculate the average number of years in retirement for men and women across many different countries. \u00a0The portion of each bar with the line is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,55,260,1765,1766,1767,1811,1770,1771,1815,2055,2026,1776,1777,4128,4127,1783,1817,1818,1819,1821,2129,1824,1790,1791,1794,1795,8087,8088,1788,1802,1804,1805,1789,1807,3920,76],"class_list":["post-35384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-gender","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-australia","tag-nation-austria","tag-nation-belgium","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-chile","tag-nation-czech-republic","tag-nation-denmark","tag-nation-finland","tag-nation-france","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-greece","tag-nation-hungary","tag-nation-iceland","tag-nation-ireland","tag-nation-israel","tag-nation-italy","tag-nation-japan","tag-nation-luxembourg","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-new-zealand","tag-nation-norway","tag-nation-poland","tag-nation-portugal","tag-nation-slovakia","tag-nation-slovenia","tag-nation-south-korea","tag-nation-spain","tag-nation-sweden","tag-nation-switzerland","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-nation-turkey","tag-nation-united-states","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58884,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35384\/revisions\/58884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}