Prague – The elderly live best in them Switzerland. This is confirmed by the latest edition of the ranking AgeWatch Global Indexsupported by the University of Southampton and HelpAge International.

The Czech Republic is ranked 22nd, which includes almost a hundred countries in the world – the best of the post-communist countries. According to the survey authors, legal state pensions and the certainty of a stable income in old age are responsible for the excellent results. Moreover, according to data from HelpAge International, only 1.7 percent of more than two and a half million Czech seniors suffer from poverty.

Global AgeWatch Index 2015 (selection of overall rankings)

The life expectancy of elderly citizens in the Czech Republic is also high. The average 60-year-old person has twenty-one years left to live, which is more than 16 years without serious health problems. For comparison: this 60-year-old Swiss man still has a quarter of a century to live and about 19 years without disease.

In contrast, in Bangladesh, for example, only 39 percent of the population over the age of sixty-five receive pension funds from the state. On the other hand, the elderly there beat the Czech elderly in terms of the elderly’s satisfaction with their safety and public transport – in addition to objective figures, the feelings of the pensioners themselves were also assessed.

The ranking focuses on several criteria, such as income of senior citizens (state pension guarantees, wealth, but also the level of the country’s economy), health (life expectancy, psychological well-being), employment and educational opportunities, physical security, civil liberties, access. to public transportation or social contact.