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Results from our research into retirement & migration

  • By the year 2012, approximately three-quarters of a million British people will travel overseas to work each year. Astonishingly, this is 3 times the figure today (source: British Expat Global Workers report)
  • Did you know that in less than 10 years time, an extra 2.3 million Britains aged 55 and over will retire abroad? That equates to 1 in 8 who will have taken the plunge and started a new life overseas (source: The New Age of Retirement Migration)
  • Feeling stressed? Over the next few years, the need to reduce stress will become a major driver of emigration in Britain among certain sections of the population (source: The Future of British Migration)
  • Did you know that approximately 1.7 million students study abroad each year? By 2025 however, an estimated 7.2 million will continue their education abroad (source: Landscapes of Opportunity)

In 2003, Alliance & Leicester International Limited commissioned the Centre for Future Studies based in Kent to look in-depth into the future of retirement and migration so that we could better understand the changing needs of our customers.

The quantitative results have been divided into four reports:

These findings are now available in a convenient PDF format that is quick and easy to download. They provide full details of our findings and include future scenarios and verbatim extracts from on-line research conducted with real expats.