Experience Capital, Peakspan & Workspan
External empirical finding · Contextual · 2025
For people starting a full career at age 22 in 2024, average OECD normal retirement ages are projected to rise by about two years
Under current legislation, the average normal retirement age across OECD countries increases from 64.7 for men and 63.9 for women retiring in 2024 to 66.4 and 65.9 for people beginning a full career at age 22 in 2024.
Research basis
Official cross-country pension-policy analysis. OECD pension systems, using a full-career entry assumption.
What it supports
A policy anchor for extending expected working-life horizons in many countries.
Boundary
These are pension eligibility ages based on current legislation and a full-career assumption. They do not show how long people will actually work, whether they want to work longer, or whether they will retain the capacity to do so.
BOL relevance
Documents the widening time horizon across which capacity and accumulated experience may need to remain deployable.
Source class
Official institutional source
Role in BOL
Contextual
Population context
Policy or conceptual
Evidence basis
Modeled from current legislation
Result and methodology checked 26 July 2026.