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title: "Countries Where £1,500 a Month Goes Furthest — Geo-Parity"
description: "A fixed £1,500 monthly pension against each country's modelled essentials — food, housing, transport and utilities — ranked by how many months it covers."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/best/countries-where-1500-a-month-goes-furthest/"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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# 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 |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [🇳🇬 Nigeria](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/nigeria/) | 9.64× essentials | no retiree visa |
| 2 | [🇲🇲 Myanmar](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/myanmar/) | 8.55× essentials |  |
| 3 | [🇪🇬 Egypt](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/egypt/) | 7.78× essentials | retirement |
| 4 | [🇸🇾 Syria](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/syria/) | 7.66× essentials |  |
| 5 | [🇱🇦 Laos](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/laos/) | 5.24× essentials |  |
| 6 | [🇵🇰 Pakistan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/pakistan/) | 5.21× essentials |  |
| 7 | [🇮🇳 India](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/india/) | 4.84× essentials | no retiree visa |
| 8 | [🇸🇱 Sierra Leone](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/sierra-leone/) | 4.82× essentials |  |
| 9 | [🇧🇹 Bhutan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/bhutan/) | 4.73× essentials |  |
| 10 | [🇸🇩 Sudan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/sudan/) | 4.61× essentials |  |
| 11 | [🇳🇵 Nepal](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/nepal/) | 4.56× essentials |  |
| 12 | [🇹🇯 Tajikistan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/tajikistan/) | 4.50× essentials |  |
| 13 | [🇱🇰 Sri Lanka](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/sri-lanka/) | 4.17× essentials |  |
| 14 | [🇧🇮 Burundi](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/burundi/) | 4.13× essentials |  |
| 15 | [🇺🇿 Uzbekistan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/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](https://geo-parity.com/retire/?tab=budget) runs the same engine against your own figures, and every country above links to its own page.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/best/countries-where-1500-a-month-goes-furthest/