Where does a £1,500 pension cover the most?
Nigeria leads on coverage at 9.64× essentials; Uzbekistan is last of the 15 shown at 4.13× essentials.
Roughly a full UK state pension plus a small private one, converted at the site's exchange rates and set against what a month of essentials costs in each country. A coverage of 2× means the pension buys two months of essentials in one.
The essentials are MODELLED: the site's price basket scaled by each country's price level, checked against real series and wrong in both directions — so this is an ordering, not a budget. The tool behind it shows healthcare out-of-pocket, life expectancy and whether a retiree visa exists beside each row.
A country at the top with no retiree visa is a country you could afford but might not be allowed to stay in; the note says so. Published rules and modelled figures, for information only.
| # | Country | Coverage | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 9.64× essentials | no retiree visa |
| 2 | 🇲🇲 Myanmar | 8.55× essentials | |
| 3 | 🇪🇬 Egypt | 7.78× essentials | retirement |
| 4 | 🇸🇾 Syria | 7.66× essentials | |
| 5 | 🇱🇦 Laos | 5.24× essentials | |
| 6 | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | 5.21× essentials | |
| 7 | 🇮🇳 India | 4.84× essentials | no retiree visa |
| 8 | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone | 4.82× essentials | |
| 9 | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | 4.73× essentials | |
| 10 | 🇸🇩 Sudan | 4.61× essentials | |
| 11 | 🇳🇵 Nepal | 4.56× essentials | |
| 12 | 🇹🇯 Tajikistan | 4.50× essentials | |
| 13 | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | 4.17× essentials | |
| 14 | 🇧🇮 Burundi | 4.13× essentials | |
| 15 | 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan | 4.13× essentials |
How this is worked out: £1,500 a month converted to USD at the site's FX snapshot, divided by modelled monthly essentials from the Geo-Parity price basket (reviewed 2026-07-11), highest first. Modelled costs; visa kind from the curated retirement-visa register. Estimates for comparison, not advice.
Check your own numbers
A ranking is a starting point, not an answer — your income, household and destination change the order. The Retire on a monthly pension runs the same engine against your own figures, and every country above links to its own page.