Age Pension Recipients — methodology
Category: Equality & Inclusion · Unit: persons · Published monthly
What this metric measures
Total number of Australians receiving Age Pension, the primary retirement income support payment.
Why it matters: Tracks the scale of retirement income support. Influenced by demographics, superannuation adequacy, and age pension eligibility rules.
Source & provenance
- Publisher
- DSS Income Support Recipients Monthly Ti
- Update frequency
- monthly
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
How the score is computed
This metric is in a category that is tracked but does not contribute to the National Snapshot Index.
See related corrections at /corrections, or the live data and chart at https://www.australiametrics.org/metric/age-pension-recipients.