Few American workers, and even fewer workers around the world, are highly confident they will have an easy retirement, according to a new survey.

The poll, commissioned by the non-profit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies and Dutch insurance company Aegon, found that just 28 percent of U.S. workers are "very" or "extremely" confident they will retire with a comfortable lifestyle, while a third are somewhat confident.

Only 19 percent of workers globally have high confidence they will have a comfortable retirement. The greatest percentage of those who feel that way are in China, where the rate is 41 percent, while the lowest rates are in France, with 6 percent, and Poland, with 4 percent.

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