The pension gap between men and women in Austria is well above the average for OECD countries. This emerges from the latest OECD report “Pensions at a Glance 2025”, which was presented on Thursday. While the average gender-specific pension difference in OECD countries fell from around 28 percent in 2007 to 22.8 percent in 2024, in Austria it was 35.6 percent in the previous year.
Austria therefore has the fourth largest gap of the 35 OECD countries. The difference was recently only greater in Japan (47.3 percent), Great Britain (36.7) and the Netherlands (36.3). Behind Austria, Mexico had a gap of more than 35 percent at 35.4 percent. Switzerland came in eighth place with a gap of 31.2 percent, the USA in twelfth place with 28.9 percent, Italy in 13th place with 28.6 percent and Germany in 15th place with a 25.8 percent difference.
There were recently less than ten percent pension differences in Estonia (5.6), Iceland (7.1), Slovakia (8.4), the Czech Republic (9.6) and Slovenia (9.7).
