Only 4 of 46 National Pension Systems Publish What They Have LostNew free public dataset from PensionHunter tracks which countries count unclaimed pension money and which do not. CSV download, no email required.
By: PensionHunter Of the 46 systems examined, 4 publish an official figure. Of those 4, only 2 come from a government body or regulator. The remaining 42 publish no number at all. The dataset is free to view and download in full as a CSV file. There is no charge, no registration and no email requirement. Every row carries the publishing body, the source document, the publication date and the date PensionHunter last checked it. Rows recording an absence carry a source too, so the absence is evidenced rather than asserted. The figures that do exist The Pensions Policy Institute counts 31.1 billion pounds across 3.3 million forgotten workplace pension pots in the United Kingdom, an average of 9,470 pounds each, as of October 2024. Capitalize counts 2.13 trillion US dollars across 31.9 million left behind retirement accounts in the United States, an average of 66,691 dollars, in its 2025 research. The Australian Taxation Office reports 18.9 billion Australian dollars in lost and unclaimed superannuation. Adding only the systems that publish gives a worldwide floor of at least 74 billion US dollars in the categories PensionHunter tracks. The figure is a floor, not an estimate. "The worldwide total is not unknown because it is hard to calculate," said PensionHunter's founder. "It is unknown because most systems do not count it. Every country that does not publish is a gap we have chosen to leave visible rather than fill with an estimate." The gap matters most to people who worked in more than one country. Automatic enrolment in the United Kingdom since 2012 means anyone employed there for even a few months has a pension pot. Many have since left. The provider writes in English, to an address they no longer live at, about a system nobody explained to them. PensionHunter has invited corrections. Any administrator or government body that believes a row is wrong is asked to write to hello@pensionhunter.ai, and the page carries a dated changelog of every correction made. About PensionHunter PensionHunter is a cross-border pension research and identification service covering 24 countries, publishing a free directory of official government pension portals for 46. It identifies who holds a pension and supplies the verified contact route. It does not hold, transfer or claim client money at any stage and is not FCA regulated. PensionHunter is a trading name of BatterseaPark Capital Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 13326151. Dataset: https://pensionhunter.ai/ CSV file: https://pensionhunter.ai/ End
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