IL’s 35th annual 2026 Global Retirement Index is the best—and only—tool out there designed to help you match the lifestyle you dream about in retirement with a real-world place you could find it (for less than it costs you to stay home). Inside, you’ll find 179 pages packed full of on-the-ground insights and guidance from our team based around the world.

We’ve identified the 24 safest, best-value countries most worth your attention today, and we rank and rate them across seven categories—including housing, visas and benefits, cost of living, healthcare, climate, and more.

This is designed to be a practical tool—created with reliable, verified data and informed by the good judgement of our team of global correspondents based in the countries they write about.

Out in the wilds of the Internet, you’ll find a lot of outdated, incomplete, or just plain wrong information about retiring abroad. Not here. Since 1979 we’ve been tromping around the planet to see places with our own eyes, to spend time in the best spots, to ensure that the guidance we offer is accurate and useful in the real world.

If you’re curious about how and where you could improve your life overseas, what you really need is the full, reliable story. Not just facts and figures, but advice about what to do with them. And that’s what we deliver inside our 2026 Global Retirement Index.

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