Retirement Age Men in the United States increased to 66.83 Years in 2025 from 66.67 Years in 2024. This dataset provides - United States Retirement Age Men - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

This dataset provides values for RETIREMENT AGE MEN reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Retirement age by class of worker and gender, annual.

Retirement Age Women in the United States increased to 66.83 Years in 2025 from 66.67 Years in 2024. This dataset provides - United States Retirement Age Women - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Changelog:

Update September 20, 2021: Data and overview updated to reflect data used in the September 15 story Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic. It includes 303 state or local public health leaders who resigned, retired or were fired between April 1, 2020 and Sept. 12, 2021. Previous versions of this dataset reflected data used in the Dec. 2020 and April 2021 stories.

Overview

Across the U.S., state and local public health officials have found themselves at the center of a political storm as they combat the worst pandemic in a century. Amid a fractured federal response, the usually invisible army of workers charged with preventing the spread of infectious disease has become a public punching bag.

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, at least 303 state or local public health leaders in 41 states have resigned, retired or been fired since April 1, 2020, according to an ongoing investigation by The Associated Press and KHN.

According to experts, that is the largest exodus of public health leaders in American history.

Many left due to political blowback or pandemic pressure, as they became the target of groups that have coalesced around a common goal — fighting and even threatening officials over mask orders and well-established public health activities like quarantines and contact tracing. Some left to take higher profile positions, or due to health concerns. Others were fired for poor performance. Dozens retired. An untold number of lower level staffers have also left.

The result is a further erosion of the nation’s already fragile public health infrastructure, which KHN and the AP documented beginning in 2020 in the Underfunded and Under Threat project.

Findings

The AP and KHN found that:

• One in five Americans live in a community that has lost its local public health department leader during the pandemic
• Top public health officials in 28 states have left state-level departments ## Using this data To filter for data specific to your state, use this query

To get total numbers of exits by state, broken down by state and local departments, use this query

Methodology

KHN and AP counted how many state and local public health leaders have left their jobs between April 1, 2020 and Sept. 12, 2021.

The government tasks public health workers with improving the health of the general population, through their work to encourage healthy living and prevent infectious disease. To that end, public health officials do everything from inspecting water and food safety to testing the nation’s babies for metabolic diseases and contact tracing cases of syphilis.

Many parts of the country have a health officer and a health director/administrator by statute. The analysis counted both of those positions if they existed. For state-level departments, the count tracks people in the top and second-highest-ranking job.

The analysis includes exits of top department officials regardless of reason, because no matter the reason, each left a vacancy at the top of a health agency during the pandemic. Reasons for departures include political pressure, health concerns and poor performance. Others left to take higher profile positions or to retire. Some departments had multiple top officials exit over the course of the pandemic; each is included in the analysis.

Reporters compiled the exit list by reaching out to public health associations and experts in every state and interviewing hundreds of public health employees. They also received information from the National Association of City and County Health Officials, and combed news reports and records.

Public health departments can be found at multiple levels of government. Each state has a department that handles these tasks, but most states also have local departments that either operate under local or state control. The population served by each local health department is calculated using the U.S. Census Bureau 2019 Population Estimates based on each department’s jurisdiction.

KHN and the AP have worked since the spring on a series of stories documenting the funding, staffing and problems around public health. A previous data distribution detailed a decade's worth of cuts to state and local spending and staffing on public health. That data can be found here.

Attribution

Findings and the data should be cited as: "According to a KHN and Associated Press report."

Is Data Missing?

If you know of a public health official in your state or area who has left that position between April 1, 2020 and Sept. 12, 2021 and isn't currently in our dataset, please contact authors Anna Maria Barry-Jester annab@kff.org, Hannah Recht hrecht@kff.org, Michelle Smith mrsmith@ap.org and Lauren Weber laurenw@kff.org.

This dataset provides values for RETIREMENT AGE WOMEN reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Retirement Age Men in Canada remained unchanged at 65 Years in 2025 from 65 Years in 2024. This dataset provides - Canada Retirement Age Men - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Percentage of employees expected to voluntarily retire over the next 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, fourth quarter of 2022.

TROPIS is the acronym for the Tree Growth and Permanent Plot Information System sponsored by CIFOR to promote more effective use of existing data and knowledge about tree growth.

    TROPIS is concerned primarily with information about permanent plots and tree
    growth in both planted and natural forests throughout the world. It has five
    components:

    - a network of people willing to share permanent plot data and tree
    growth information;
    - an index to people and institutions with permanent plots;
    - a database management system to promote more efficient data management;
    - a method to find comparable sites elsewhere, so that observations
    can be supplemented or contrasted with other data; and
    - an inference system to allow growth estimates to be made in the
    absence of empirical data.
    - TROPIS is about people and information. The core of TROPIS is an
    index to people and their plots maintained in a relational
    database. The database is designed to fulfil two primary needs:
    - to provide for efficient cross-checking, error-checking and
    updating; and to facilitate searches for plots matching a wide range
    of specified criteria, including (but not limited to) location, forest
    type, taxa, plot area, measurement history.

    The database is essentially hierarchical: the key element of the
    database is the informant. Each informant may contribute information
    on many plot series, each of which has consistent objectives. In turn,
    each series may comprise many plots, each of which may have a
    different location or different size. Each plot may contain many
    species. A series may be a thinning or spacing experiment, some
    species or provenance trials, a continuous forest inventory system, or
    any other aggregation of plots convenient to the informant. Plots need
    not be current. Abandoned plots may be included provided that the
    location is known and the plot data remain accessible. In addition to
    details of the informant, we try to record details of additional
    contact people associated with plots, to maintain continuity when
    people transfer or retire. Thus the relational structure may appear
    complex, but ensures data integrity.

    At present, searches are possible only via mail, fax or email requests
    to the TROPIS co-ordinator at CIFOR. Self-service on-line searching
    will also be available in 1997. Clients may search for plots with
    specified taxa, locations, silvicultural treatment, or other specified
    criteria and combinations. TROPIS currently contains references to
    over 10,000 plots with over 2,000 species contributed by 100
    individuals world-wide.

    This database will help CIFOR as well as other users to make more
    efficient use of existing information, and to develop appropriate and
    effective techniques and policies for sustainable forest management
    world-wide.

    TROPIS is supported by the Government of Japan.

    This information is from the CIFOR web site.

Retirement Age Men in Germany remained unchanged at 66 Years in 2025 from 66 Years in 2024. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Germany Retirement Age - Men - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This round of Euro-Barometer surveys queried respondents on standard Euro-Barometer measures such as public awareness of and attitudes toward the Common Market and the European Community (EC), and also focused on consumer goods, Social Security, health care and health care benefits, the elderly, retirement, and alcohol and drug use. Questions concerning consumer goods asked whether respondents read product information before purchasing, what additional product information they would like to see, what three things other than price were most important in deciding whether to purchase an item, and whether it was necessary to have the same type of product information available for all members of the European Community (EC). Respondents' attitudes and opinions on Social Security were probed with questions that asked whether they agreed that Social Security properly protects the unemployed, the elderly, the sick or disabled, those with work-related injuries or illness, and the poor. Respondents were also asked whether policies on pensions, minimum income, and unemployment should be decided by national governments or by the EC, and whether foreigners should have the same Social Security benefits as citizens. The general health of respondents and their health care benefits were assessed through questions that asked whether they had a long-standing illness, disability, or infirmity, whether they had cut down their activity due to illness or injury, and whether they had taken medicine or talked to a doctor within the last 30 days. Respondents were also queried about which conditions they would see a doctor for and what type of examinations they had had in the past three years. Respondents were asked to rate what they paid for various medical services, the general quality of their health care, and the nature and availability of health insurance. The main problems facing the elderly and the role the elderly play in society were also topics of investigation in this survey. Questions elicited respondents' views toward possible changes in pension terms, whether retirement should occur at a fixed age, what types of discrimination affect the elderly who are working, whether the government should introduce laws to try to stop age discrimination, whether a minimum level of income should be provided to the elderly, and whether the elderly needing personal care should go into residential/nursing homes or should have social services help them remain in their homes for as long as possible. Respondents were also asked whether they provided long-term care to anyone either living with them or not living with them, who was in the best position to decide which services are most important for the elderly, what the best method of financing long-term care for the elderly was, and whether the EC was doing enough with regard to the elderly. Questions on retirement dealt with what ages respondents retired/planned to retire, whether the retired felt their pensions to be adequate, whether working people looked forward to retiring, whether pensions should be extended to widows and dependent children, whether pensions should be reduced for those who work for earned income beyond retirement, and whether pensions should be provided through government taxation, employer/employee contributions, or private contracts between workers and pension companies. Queries about alcohol and drug usage probed the use of beer, wine, spirits, and other forms of alcohol, age at which the respondent began drinking, familiarity with major forms of drugs, age at which drugs were first offered, how difficult it was to get drugs, and the means available for getting drugs. Additional questions focused on how the respondent viewed the drug problem, the top priority in eliminating the drug problem, diminishing the effects of drug use, whether drug use leads to AIDS, prostitution, health problems, social problems, violence, suicide, personality breakdowns, and problems with the law, and the major reasons for alcohol and drug use. Demographic and other background information was gathered on life satisfaction, number of people residing in the home, size of locality, home ownership, trade union membership, region of residence, and occupation of the head of household, as well as the respondent's age, sex, marital status, education, occupation, work sector, religiosity, subjective social class, use of media, left-right political self-placement, and opinion leadership. (Source: downloaded from ICPSR 7/13/10)

Please Note: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR -- https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09957.v1. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they made this dataset available in multiple data formats.

Retirement Age Men in Italy remained unchanged at 67 Years in 2025 from 67 Years in 2024. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Italy Retirement Age - Men - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Retirement Age Men in Saudi Arabia remained unchanged at 60 Years in 2025 from 60 Years in 2024. This dataset provides - Saudi Arabia Retirement Age Men- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Retirement Age Men in Mexico remained unchanged at 65 Years in 2025 from 65 Years in 2024. This dataset provides - Mexico Retirement Age Men - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Retirement Age Men in Sweden remained unchanged at 63 Years in 2025 from 63 Years in 2024. This dataset provides - Sweden Retirement Age Men - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Retirement Age Men in Russia remained unchanged at 63 Years in 2025 from 63 Years in 2024. This dataset provides - Russia Retirement Age Men - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Retirement Age Men in Greece remained unchanged at 67 Years in 2025 from 67 Years in 2024. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Greece Retirement Age - Men - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Retirement Age Women in Italy remained unchanged at 67 Years in 2025 from 67 Years in 2024. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Italy Retirement Age - Women - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Retirement Age Men in Cyprus increased to 66 Years in 2025 from 65.50 Years in 2024. This dataset provides - Cyprus Retirement Age Men - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.