More and more people are looking to retire abroad in search of a different lifestyle and lower cost of living. And while the United States doesn’t have an official retirement visa program, dozens of other countries around the world do.
This year, Global Citizen Solutions published its Global Retirement Report 2025, ranking 44 passive income and retirement visa programs.
The report looked at 20 targeted indicators grouped into six sub-indices: procedure, citizenship and mobility, economics, tax optimization, quality of life, and safety and integration. Each country was given a score out of 100.
The U.S. did not make the list, but the report did find that many of the countries ranked in the top 10 are in the Americas and Europe.
“The Americas dominate the availability of digital nomad retirement visas and then Europe. They have a very high quality of life that’s above average,” Dr. Laura Madrid Sartoretto, Research Lead at GCS’ Global Intelligence Unit, tells CNBC Make It.
