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The Cost To Retire Comfortably Around The World

For Americans considering retirement abroad, the same savings can go dramatically different distances depending on the destination.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, maps the estimated cost for Americans to retire comfortably around the world, based on data from NetCredit and Numbeo.

Estimates reflect a retirement of 14 years and 8.4 months, based on the average U.S. retirement age and life expectancy, and exclude taxes and healthcare costs.

The U.S. Is One of the Most Expensive Places to Retire

At an estimated $738,000, the U.S. ranks as the fifth-most expensive country in the dataset for an American to retire comfortably, behind Singapore, Iceland, Switzerland, and Luxembourg.

RankCountryCost to Retire Comfortably ($USD) 1🇸🇬 Singapore$1.1M 2🇮🇸 Iceland$893K 3🇨🇭 Switzerland$859K 4🇱🇺 Luxembourg$794K 5🇺🇸 United States$738K 6🇮🇪 Ireland$702K 7🇦🇪 UAE$684K 8🇳🇱 Netherlands$663K 9🇮🇱 Israel$642K 10🇬🇧 United Kingdom$627K 11🇩🇰 Denmark$625K 12🇳🇴 Norway$623K 13🇦🇺 Australia$620K 14🇶🇦 Qatar$606K 15🇨🇦 Canada$598K 16🇨🇷 Costa Rica$556K 17🇦🇹 Austria$553K 18🇲🇹 Malta$551K 19🇧🇪 Belgium$534K 20🇩🇪 Germany$530K 21🇳🇿 New Zealand$527K 22🇨🇾 Cyprus$525K 23🇫🇮 Finland$520K 24🇸🇪 Sweden$508K 25🇫🇷 France$496K 26🇮🇹 Italy$491K 27🇵🇹 Portugal$478K 28🇪🇸 Spain$478K 29🇺🇾 Uruguay$451K 30🇭🇷 Croatia$442K 31🇪🇪 Estonia$438K 32🇵🇱 Poland$438K 33🇰🇼 Kuwait$436K 34🇨🇿 Czech Republic$432K 35🇸🇮 Slovenia$430K 36🇱🇹 Lithuania$429K 37🇱🇻 Latvia$427K 38🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago$427K 39🇸🇰 Slovakia$417K 40🇰🇷 South Korea$406K 41🇬🇷 Greece$406K 42🇯🇵 Japan$398K 43🇲🇪 Montenegro$395K 44🇦🇱 Albania$388K 45🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia$362K 46🇹🇷 Turkey$361K 47🇲🇩 Moldova$360K 48🇷🇸 Serbia$359K 49🇲🇽 Mexico$356K 50🇹🇼 Taiwan$354K 51🇭🇺 Hungary$347K 52🇦🇷 Argentina$347K 53🇩🇴 Dominican Republic$339K 54🇨🇱 Chile$338K 55🇷🇴 Romania$335K 56🇺🇿 Uzbekistan$331K 57🇲🇺 Mauritius$330K 58🇬🇭 Ghana$324K 59🇳🇬 Nigeria$324K 60🇧🇬 Bulgaria$324K 61🇹🇿 Tanzania$322K 62🇹🇭 Thailand$317K 63🇬🇪 Georgia$315K 64🇿🇦 South Africa$313K 65🇵🇪 Peru$305K 66🇲🇰 North Macedonia$304K 67🇮🇷 Iran$302K 68🇵🇭 Philippines$301K 69🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina$299K 70🇻🇪 Venezuela$296K 71🇻🇳 Vietnam$295K 72🇰🇿 Kazakhstan$294K 73🇲🇾 Malaysia$292K 74🇮🇶 Iraq$290K 75🇺🇦 Ukraine$286K 76🇲🇦 Morocco$284K 77🇷🇺 Russia$281K 78🇪🇨 Ecuador$281K 79🇨🇳 China$279K 80🇨🇴 Colombia$279K 81🇰🇪 Kenya$272K 82🇺🇬 Uganda$272K 83🇦🇿 Azerbaijan$270K 84🇧🇷 Brazil$268K 85🇧🇾 Belarus$267K 86🇽🇰 Kosovo$266K 87🇱🇰 Sri Lanka$258K 88🇮🇩 Indonesia$254K 89🇹🇳 Tunisia$253K 90🇩🇿 Algeria$222K 91🇳🇵 Nepal$214K 92🇪🇬 Egypt$190K 93🇧🇩 Bangladesh$190K 94🇮🇳 India$189K 95🇵🇰 Pakistan$187K

Costa Rica is also a popular destination for American retirees, combining a well-regarded healthcare system with a territorial tax system that generally does not tax foreign-source income.

The estimated retirement cost is $598,000 in Canada and just $356,000 in Mexico. That means the same modeled retirement in Mexico costs less than half as much as in the U.S.

The gap extends to several popular European destinations. Portugal and Spain both come in at $478,000, roughly $260,000 below the U.S. estimate, while Greece requires an estimated $406,000.

Europe Has Some of the Biggest Retirement Cost Gaps

Retirement costs across Europe range from $893,000 in Iceland to $267,000 in Belarus.

Many of the highest estimates are concentrated in Northern and Western Europe. Switzerland ($859K), Luxembourg ($794K), Ireland ($702K), the UK ($627K), and Denmark ($625K) all rank among the more expensive countries in the dataset.

Further south and east, retirement savings can stretch considerably further. The estimated cost falls to $395,000 in Montenegro, $388,000 in Albania, and $335,000 in Romania.

Even within Western Europe, there are sizable differences. Retiring in Portugal or Spain is estimated to cost about 35% less than in the United States.

Where $200,000 Could Fund an Entire Retirement

At the other end of the ranking, just four countries have estimated retirement costs below $200,000.

Pakistan is the cheapest at $187,000, followed closely by India ($189K), Bangladesh ($190K), and Egypt ($190K). Pakistan’s estimate is roughly one-quarter of the $738,000 required in the United States.

Several other large economies also fall below $300,000, including Brazil ($268K), China ($279K), Colombia ($279K), Russia ($281K), Malaysia ($292K), and Vietnam ($295K).

Across the full dataset, the gap between the most and least expensive countries exceeds $900,000, highlighting how strongly local living costs can affect the purchasing power of retirement savings. These figures are not individualized retirement targets and exclude healthcare and taxes, which can significantly affect the cost of retiring abroad.

To learn more about this topic, check out this graphic on the share of Americans receiving Social Security by state.

Tyler Durden Thu, 08/20/2026 - 05:45

Richard Haldenby says his average monthly bill for Harvest had risen from $130 (£95.50) to $2,110.

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Ceuta Cops Claim Invaders Are Dragging Girls Into Mountains For Gang-Rapes

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

Spanish National Police officers and the majority union Jupol are sounding the alarm over a horrific pattern in the North African enclave of Ceuta: illegal Moroccan migrants, including unaccompanied minors and undocumented adults, are kidnapping girls and dragging them into the surrounding mountains to subject them to gang rape.

According to agents on the ground and local residents, the attackers operate with near-impunity around the Temporary Stay Centre for Immigrants (CETI) and the irregular settlements that have taken root on the hillsides.

Victims are overwhelmingly girls and adolescents - some local, but most are Moroccan or Sub-Saharan. The assaults are reportedly happening in the rugged terrain that is hard to police.

? ÚLTIMA HORA | Policías denuncian que inmigrantes ilegales marroquíes están secuestrando a niñas y violándolas en manada en montañas de Ceutahttps://t.co/J57pMZe7Xg

— LA GACETA (@gaceta_es) August 18, 2026

Jupol spokeswoman Laura García stated that far more of these attacks occur than ever reach official records. Survivors are too terrified to report. The number of formal complaints already exceeds the number of arrests. "Hoy hay violadores y pederastas sueltos por Ceuta," García said - today there are rapists and pedophiles loose in Ceuta.

One recent case illustrates the chaos. Last Thursday a minor was subjected to a multiple assault by several Moroccan men on Avenida de Lisboa, one of the city's main arteries.

Neighbours raised the alarm and only one attacker was caught; the rest fled and remain unidentified. The same day a young Sub-Saharan woman walked into the Superior Police Headquarters to report a similar group attack by Moroccan-origin perpetrators.

Officers say these incidents are not isolated. They are repeating daily.

Around thirty Moroccan girls, some as young as ten, have been observed sheltering under police vehicles out of pure fear of the men occupying the nearby slopes.

García has repeatedly described how groups of women and girls stay glued to police vans near the CETI because the moment they separate they risk sexual assault.

Meanwhile Equality Minister Ana Redondo, speaking from a "purple point" far away in Valladolid, insisted the minors "do not wander around but are in safe spaces and receive care."

The gap between official messaging and the reality reported by police, doctors and residents could not be wider.

This latest police testimony lands on top of an already catastrophic picture that has been unfolding since the late-July mass crossing.

An estimated 70,000-plus migrants poured into a city of roughly 84,000. Reception centres collapsed. Thousands of young men remained after many others were pushed back.

Beaches turned into open-air camps of shacks, garbage, food waste, urine and human faeces. Children's parks were left smeared in shit.

Hospitals reported surges in scabies, tuberculosis and impetigo. A doctor warned of a health catastrophe.

Civil Guard sources have confirmed at least 15 sexual assaults since the invasion.

Women have been packing up and leaving. Mothers have broken down on live television describing the daily terror for their teenage daughters.

One said her 16-year-old can no longer go anywhere without a parent because "the migrants devour her." Sisters Yoli and María José removed their daughters from the city, declaring they feel humiliated and abandoned while Pedro Sánchez holidayed elsewhere.

Residents have now set up their own women's protection camp because the state has failed to keep them safe.

?? Residents of Ceuta have set up a women's camp to protect them from sexual assaults by illegal migrants

While Sánchez's government claims the situation is under control, police are investigating at least 15 sexual assaults by the migrants.

Two victims were underage girls. pic.twitter.com/Jtq7NWP1Vv

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 19, 2026

Into this nightmare has stepped the self-styled "Barbie Gaza," Ana Alcalde, a Free Palestine activist and NGO-adjacent influencer who lives in Ceuta.

She is married to a local police officer, and has six children. She has been filming herself walking past groups of migrants, dressed provocatively, claiming the streets are completely safe and dismissing fearful locals as xenophobic.

The footage, however, shows her moving quickly, avoiding eye contact, while insisting everything is fine.

She loves Islamic North African invaders. Why doesn't she leave Europe and Spain and move to an Islamic country dressed like this? https://t.co/KqEIWw6EO1 pic.twitter.com/QhzznkgRAE

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 18, 2026

She has been filmed arriving in a high-end Audi to hand out sandwiches to the illegal arrivals.

A local Ceuta woman confronted her on camera and did not hold back. "It is very easy to come here and hand out sandwiches in an Audi with a police husband," the resident said. "I don't care about Palestine, I care about my family."

Aquí os dejo 3 minutos de una vecina ceutí TRITURANDO a 'Barbie Gaza' por colaborar con los inmigrantes ilegales y decir que Ceuta es seguro:

"Es muy fácil venir aquí a repartir bocadillos en un Audi con un marido policía".

"A mi Palestina no me importa, me importa mi familia". pic.twitter.com/bmBqTcTX8J

— Unai Cano (@unaicano10) August 19, 2026

The pattern is by now familiar across Europe: mass illegal entries, government denial, media minimisation, activist performance, and ordinary women and girls left to fend for themselves. In Ceuta the mountains themselves have become hunting grounds.

Police unions are stating what the political class refuses to say out loud. Rapists and pedophiles are walking free. Girls are being taken. And the people who live there are paying the price for an open-border agenda that prioritises the comfort of invaders and the virtue-signalling of outsiders over the safety of Spanish families.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 08/20/2026 - 05:00

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The Oscar winner said the party needs to give voters a reason to support Democrats rather than just channeling hatred.

“Just the highest terror I ever felt."

By 2050, The World's Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia

Across 150 years, familiar urban giants rise, fall, and give way to a new generation of megacities.

This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 15 most populous cities worldwide from 1950 to 2100 using population estimates from the European Commission’s JRC via Our World in Data. City boundaries were consistently defined based on satellite imagery and population data.

The Transatlantic Era

Tokyo led the 1950 ranking with 12.6 million people, followed by New York with 9.3 million.

The Big Apple was not the only massive Western city at the time. Of the 15 most populous cities in 1950, over half were found in either Europe or the Americas. This included London (7.9 million), Moscow (5.5 million), and Paris (5.4 million).

The table below ranks the 15 most populous cities in 1950:

RankCityPopulation in 1950
(Millions)Region 1🇯🇵 Tokyo12.6Asia 2🇺🇸 New York City9.3North America 3🇯🇵 Osaka8.0Asia 4🇬🇧 London7.9Europe 5🇮🇳 Kolkata6.1Asia 6🇷🇺 Moscow5.5Europe 7🇫🇷 Paris5.4Europe 8🇦🇷 Buenos Aires4.6South America 9🇺🇸 Los Angeles4.0North America 10🇮🇩 Jakarta3.9Asia 11🇮🇳 Mumbai3.8Asia 12🇲🇽 Mexico City3.7North America 13🇪🇬 Cairo3.1Africa 14🇨🇳 Shanghai3.1Asia 15🇧🇷 São Paulo3.1South America

The rankings began changing quickly over the following decades. By 1975, London had fallen out of the top 15, while Paris (7.4 million) and Los Angeles (7.7 million) had also slipped in rank.

The second half of the 20th century also saw the rise of Latin American metropolises such as São Paulo and Mexico City, which by 2000 had surpassed New York as the most populous cities in the hemisphere.

The Rise of Asia

By 2000, Asia dominated the upper reaches of the ranking.

Tokyo maintained its lead at 30.3 million inhabitants, while Guangzhou had climbed to third with 19 million and New Delhi to sixth with 18 million.

Urbanization and a continental population boom continued, and by 2025 all but one of the 10 most populous cities worldwide were in Asia. The sole exception was Cairo, with 25.6 million people.

RankCityPopulation in 2025
(Millions)Region 1🇮🇩 Jakarta41.9Asia 2🇧🇩 Dhaka36.6Asia 3🇯🇵 Tokyo33.4Asia 4🇮🇳 New Delhi30.2Asia 5🇨🇳 Shanghai29.6Asia 6🇨🇳 Guangzhou27.6Asia 7🇪🇬 Cairo25.6Africa 8🇵🇭 Manila24.7Asia 9🇮🇳 Kolkata22.5Asia 10🇰🇷 Seoul22.5Asia 11🇵🇰 Karachi21.4Asia 12🇮🇳 Mumbai20.2Asia 13🇧🇷 São Paulo18.9South America 14🇹🇭 Bangkok18.2Asia 15🇲🇽 Mexico City17.7North America The World in 2100

By 2100, Dhaka is projected to rank first with 55 million people, followed by Jakarta at 49.7 million and Karachi at 43.7 million. Tokyo, the world’s largest city in 1950 and 2000, is projected to fall to ninth place with 24.1 million residents.

RankCityPopulation in 2100P
(Millions)Region 1🇧🇩 Dhaka55.0Asia 2🇮🇩 Jakarta49.7Asia 3🇵🇰 Karachi43.7Asia 4🇪🇬 Cairo36.7Africa 5🇮🇳 New Delhi32.0Asia 6🇦🇴 Luanda30.7Africa 7🇵🇰 Lahore24.8Asia 8🇨🇳 Shanghai24.7Asia 9🇯🇵 Tokyo24.1Asia 10🇵🇭 Manila22.4Asia 11🇮🇳 Mumbai21.5Asia 12🇮🇳 Kolkata20.5Asia 13🇹🇿 Dar es Salaam20.1Africa 14🇨🇳 Guangzhou18.1Asia 15🇳🇬 Lagos17.9Africa

Cairo will remain the most populous city outside of Asia, with 36.7 million people. It will be joined in the upper rankings by other African megacities including Luanda (30.7 million), Dar es Salaam (20.1 million), and Lagos (17.9 million).

Tokyo is projected to see its population fall below its 1975 level as declining birth rates contribute to long-term population decline.

To learn more about national population growth, check out The Top 10 Countries Driving Future Population Growth on Voronoi.

Tyler Durden Thu, 08/20/2026 - 04:15

The British singer was performing at the Party in the Paddock festival in the UK over the weekend when a fight broke out in the crowd.