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How long until retirement?
Enter your date of birth and choose your situation to see an estimated retirement date and time remaining.
In Latvia, the standard retirement age has been 65 since 2025; at least 20 years of insurance record is normally required.
Retirement age in Latvia in 2026
In 2026, the standard retirement age in Latvia is 65, and an old-age pension normally requires at least 20 years of insurance record. This retirement age calculator helps estimate your retirement date and shows how many years, months and days remain.
How to calculate how long is left until retirement
Enter your date of birth in dd.mm.yyyy format, provide your insurance record and select the situation that applies to you. The calculator adds the applicable retirement age to your date of birth and compares that date with today.
Early retirement in Latvia
An old-age pension may be requested two years before the standard retirement age — from age 63 — if the insurance record is at least 30 years. Special payment conditions apply until age 65.
Who may retire earlier?
Latvian law provides earlier retirement for certain groups. For example, a parent or guardian with at least 25 years of insurance record may in certain cases retire five years earlier if they cared for five or more children, or for a child with disability, for at least eight years. Chernobyl cleanup participants and politically repressed persons may also qualify to claim an old-age pension five years earlier when the relevant conditions are met.
Service pension for Interior system officers
For Interior system and Prison Administration officers with a special service rank, service-pension eligibility depends not only on age but also on service record and total insurance record. Transitional rules apply to some officers from 2027, with the service age increasing gradually, so this calculator shows an age-50 retirement date only when the entered data may fall under the conditions applicable through the end of 2026.
Who can receive a service pension in Latvia?
Service pensions are not limited to Interior-system employees. Separate rules also apply to military service members, prosecutors, diplomats, KNAB and state-security officials, NMPD employees, judges, certain professional artists and some transport workers. The required age, qualifying service and additional conditions differ by group. Transitional rules begin to apply to several groups from 2027, so the calculator shows an explanation instead of a misleadingly precise date where the rules are more complex.
Is the calculator result official?
No. The calculator is intended for quick guidance and planning. Actual insurance record, service record and entitlement to a specific pension are determined by VSAA and the applicable legislation. Early-retirement and service-pension cases may require additional documents and an individual eligibility check.
The calculation is informational and is not a VSAA pension-award decision.