{"id":192147,"date":"2025-06-17T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192147\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:47:10","slug":"unstoppable-grafters-the-eu-countries-with-the-highest-rates-of-pensioners-working-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192147\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstoppable grafters: The EU countries with the highest rates of pensioners working after retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  By&amp;nbsp<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/profiles\/1970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alessio Dell&#8217;Anna<\/a>&amp;nbsp&amp;&amp;nbsp<b>Mert Can Yilmaz<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n                    Published on                 17\/06\/2025 &#8211; 15:11 GMT+2\u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     15:17<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>A life goal for some, a new beginning for others.<\/p>\n<p>Perception and attitude to retirement change widely across the European Union, with, in some cases, staggering rates of pensioners who decide to remain active even after qualifying for an old-age pension.<\/p>\n<p>The average across the bloc between entrepreneurs and employees is 40%, according to Eurostat data published in June.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of pensioners who continue to work are self-employed (56%), with a smaller, though still relevant, rate among employees (24%).<\/p>\n<p>Estonia and Iceland stand out as the countries with the highest proportion of working pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>Staggering rates of entrepreneurs who keep working after retirement<\/p>\n<p>Sweden has by far the most industrious retired entrepreneurs. <\/p>\n<p>Almost all of them (98.4%) keep working after receiving their old-age pension. Huge rates in Finland and Ireland too, close to 90%. <\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, in Spain and Greece, the vast majority prefer to enjoy retirement, and only about one in five entrepreneurs remain active (18% in Spain and 20% in Greece). <\/p>\n<p>Bulgarian, Greek and Cypriot pensioners clock the most hours<\/p>\n<p>In some countries, employed pensioners clock in as many as, or more, hours than common workers.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 39 in Bulgaria, 38.5 in Greece, 35.8 in Lithuania and 35.7  in Cyprus, the highest rates in the EU. <\/p>\n<p>But most pensioners who keep working prefer part-time options (57%). <\/p>\n<p>Which workers are most likely to continue working after receiving an old-age pension? <\/p>\n<p>The rate is highest among managers (40.1%) and skilled agriculture, forestry and fishery workers (40.1%). <\/p>\n<p>Salesmen (32.2%) and technicians (30.3%) also have significant proportions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspAlessio Dell&#8217;Anna&amp;nbsp&amp;&amp;nbspMert Can Yilmaz Published on 17\/06\/2025 &#8211; 15:11 GMT+2\u2022Updated 15:17 ADVERTISEMENT A life goal for some, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,72716,474,3126,2499,2250,17392,16,15,26298,68604],"class_list":{"0":"post-192147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eurostat","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-pensioners","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-retirement","14":"tag-retirement-age","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-workers","18":"tag-working-hours"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114699727464962467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}