Research
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.