{"id":254737,"date":"2025-05-25T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T07:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/denmark-raises-retirement-age-of-employees-to-70-the-highest-in-europe-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T07:12:27","slug":"denmark-raises-retirement-age-of-employees-to-70-the-highest-in-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/denmark-raises-retirement-age-of-employees-to-70-the-highest-in-europe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark raises retirement age of employees to 70, the highest in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The retirement age of employees in Denmark has been increased to 70 years. <\/p>\n<p>Denmark&#8217;s parliament on Thursday passed a bill to raise the retirement age of employees to 70 years. This age limit is the highest in European countries. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 81 members of parliament voted in favour of the bill, while 21 voted against it. This age limit will apply to citizens born after December 31, 1970. <\/p>\n<p>At present, the retirement age of employees in Denmark is 67 years. However, in the case of citizens born after January 1, 1967, this limit is 69 years. <\/p>\n<p>Denmark&#8217;s Ministry of Employment said that the main purpose of this age limit is to improve the living standards of future generations. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, Denmark has a population of 6 million. Of these, 713,000 are citizens aged between 60 and 69 years. Similarly, 580,000 citizens are aged between 70 and 79 years. &#8211; Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The retirement age of employees in Denmark has been increased to 70 years. Denmark&#8217;s parliament on Thursday passed a bill to raise the retirement age of employees to 70 years. This age limit is the highest in European countries. A total of 81 members of parliament voted in favour of the bill, while 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":254735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/254735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}