Higher rates of longevity are up ages of retirement. In line with this, the Danish government has just it will raise the retirement age for its citizens from 67 to 70 by the year 2040. In so , Denmark's workers will have the world's longest wait before they can . Denmark said the new law was necessary to pace with increasing life expectancy. However, Jesper Rasmussen, a trade union leader in Denmark, his consternation at the government's move. He said: "Denmark a healthy economy and yet the EU's highest retirement age". He : "A higher retirement age that [workers will] their right to a dignified senior life."
There a precedent for the retirement age 70. The world's first case was in Germany in 1881. It the age at 70, before it to 65 in 1916. Many countries suit and incorporated their own ages for workers to retire with a state pension. The USA first a retirement age in 1935. It was set at 65. The USA Today website that in America, the retirement age was also steadily up. It wrote: "The upward trend is slow, but striking. In 1994, the average man worked to age 61, while the typical woman out at 59. Americans are living longer, and working longer." China has also announced an increase, to be out over the next 15 years.
