Information about people in receipt of public service pensions who live abroad is not available. The information about state pension paid to people living outside of Great Britain is in the following table.
Country Number of pensioners in receipt of state pension Afghanistan — Albania — Algeria — Andorra — Anguilla — Antigua — Antilles (Netherlands) — Arab Emirates — Argentina — Ascension Island — Australia 245,000 Austria 5,000 Bahamas — Bahrain — Bangladesh 3,000 Barbados 5,000 Belgium 5,000 Belize — Bermuda — Bolivia — Botswana — Brazil — Bulgaria — Canada 153,000 Cayman Islands — Chile — China Peoples Republic — Columbia — Costa Rica — Cyprus 11,000 Denmark 2,000 Djibouti — Dominica Commonwealth 1,000 Dominican Republic — Ecuador — Egypt — Federal Republic of Yugoslavia — Fiji — Finland — France 35,000 Gambia — Germany 34,000 Ghana — Gibraltar — Greece 3,000 Grenada 1,000 Guam — Guinea — Guyana — Hong Kong 1,000 Hungary — Iceland — India 5,000 Indonesia — Iraq — Isle of Man — Israel 4,000 Italy 33,000 Jamaica 22,000 Japan — Kampuchea — Kenya — Kuwait — Lebanon — Lesotho — Liechtenstein — Luxembourg — Malagasy Republic — Malawi — Malaysia — Maldive Islands — Malta 4,000 Mauritius — Mexico — Monaco — Montserrat — Morocco — Namibia — Netherlands 8,000 Nevis St. Kitts Nevis — New Caledonia — New Zealand 47,000 Nigeria 3,000 Norway 1,000 Oman — Pakistan 6,000 Panama — Paraguay — Peru — Philippines 1,000 Poland 2,000 Portugal 6,000 Qatar — Republic of Belarus — Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina — Republic of Croatia — Republic of Ireland 104,000 Republic of Kyrgyzstan — Republic of Latvia — Republic of Lithuania — Republic of Slovenia — Republic of Turkmenistan — Republic of Uzbekistan — Republic of Yemen 3,000 Rumania — Saudi Arabia — Senegal — Seychelles — Sierra Leone — Singapore — South Africa 38,000 South Korea — Spain 76,000 Sri Lanka — St. Helena and Dependencies — St. Lucia 1,000 St. Vincent and Grenadines — Swaziland — Sweden 2,000 Switzerland 5,000 Syria — Taiwan — Tanzania — Thailand 1,000 The Czech Republic — The Russian Federation — The Slovak Republic — Tours — Trinidad and Tobago 1,000 Tunisia — Turkey — Turks and Caicos Islands — Uganda — Ukraine — Uruguay — USA 127,000 USSR — Vanuatu — Venezuela — Vietnam — Virgin Islands (British) — Virgin Islands (USA) — Yugoslavia — Zambia — Zimbabwe 3,000 Total 1,027,000 Note: Figures rounded to the nearest 1,000. Case loads less than 1,000 are denoted by ‘—’. Source: March 2006 DWP Retirement Pension administrative data.