persons - Source frequency: monthly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's age pension recipients was 2.7M persons as of March 2026, and the trend is broadly stable. Total number of Australians receiving Age Pension, the primary retirement income support payment. Tracks the scale of retirement income support. Influenced by demographics, superannuation adequacy, and age pension eligibility rules. Data is sourced from DSS Income Support Recipients Monthly Time Series (data.gov.au) and updated monthly.
Total number of Australians receiving Age Pension, the primary retirement income support payment.
Tracks the scale of retirement income support. Influenced by demographics, superannuation adequacy, and age pension eligibility rules.
GREEN = favourable trend within acceptable band of baseline. AMBER = flat or mild change. RED = unfavourable trend beyond threshold.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (DSS Income Support Recipients Monthly Time Series (data.gov.au)), updated monthly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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