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People receiving the State Pension, Great Britain

People receiving the State Pension in Great Britain, from DWP's quarterly and now annual counts.

Great Britain

13,307,794

Mar 2026

Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 11:58 UTC
Great Britain
05m10m15mMay 18Nov 19May 21Nov 22May 24Mar 2613.3m

Source: Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data table

32 periods, newest first

PeriodGreat Britain
Mar 202613,307,794
Nov 202513,253,050
Aug 202513,211,873
May 202513,116,578
Feb 202513,051,420
Nov 202413,013,507
Aug 202412,969,306
May 202412,913,697
Feb 202412,837,592
Nov 202312,805,367
Aug 202312,765,867
May 202312,693,552
Feb 202312,633,727
Nov 202212,631,262
Aug 202212,578,519
May 202212,542,927
Feb 202212,495,594
Nov 202112,473,388
Aug 202112,451,953
May 202112,408,748
Feb 202112,354,539
Nov 202012,381,368
Aug 202012,363,765
May 202012,418,151
Feb 202012,480,839
Nov 201912,559,442
Aug 201912,564,507
May 201912,621,014
Feb 201912,633,237
Nov 201812,747,262
Aug 201812,765,975
May 201812,748,151

Nations and English regions, Mar 2026

AreaNumber
Great Britain13,307,794
England10,464,904
Wales664,612
Scotland1,077,786
North East553,308
North West1,392,487
Yorkshire and The Humber1,051,214
East Midlands961,363
West Midlands1,109,066
East of England1,255,666
London1,037,363
South East1,816,111
South West1,288,330

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Source and licence

Publisher
Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore
Check it yourself
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Retrieved
30 October 2026, 11:53 UTC
Verified in
GitHub Actions run 41047883220, which alone can query Stat-Xplore; its raw response is not kept
Raw files fetched

Verification

Verified against source, 30 October 2026, 11:58 UTC Run at 30 October 2026, 11:58 UTC; 45 of 45 figures matched the live source.

ResultCheckDetail
PassProvenance recordedDepartment for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-30T11:53:51Z; 1 Stat-Xplore response, read in the Actions job and never stored
PassRe-parsing the response reproduces figures45 of 45 figures reproduced by reading the response again in the Actions job
PassFigures are finite numbers45 figures, 0 invalid
PassLive source matches every figure45 of 45 figures match exactly after querying Stat-Xplore again (1 of 1 responses byte-identical)
PassStat-Xplore figures are currentlatest month March 2026 ended 213 days before retrieval (limit 560)
PassGOV.UK annual compendium agreesGreat Britain, March 2026: Stat-Xplore's 13,307,794, rounded to the nearest 1,000, equals the compendium's 13,308,000, in https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-dwp-benefits-statistics-compendium-2026/annual-dwp-benefits-statistics-compendium-2026. Earlier months are checked by the live re-fetch only
Not runNations add up to the totalEngland, Wales and Scotland sum to 12,207,302 in March 2026, −1,100,492 on the total of 13,307,794. DWP adjusts each figure by a small random amount and publishes no bound for it, so this gap is information, not a pass or a fail
Not runEnglish regions add up to EnglandThe nine English regions sum to 10,464,908 in March 2026, +4 on the total of 10,464,904. DWP adjusts each figure by a small random amount and publishes no bound for it, so this gap is information, not a pass or a fail
PassSource page answershttps://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries – HTTP 200

Notes

  • People in receipt of the State Pension, old and new, including people living abroad, so the nations may not add up exactly to the total.
  • DWP adds a small random amount to every figure in Stat-Xplore to protect confidentiality (it calls this Introduced Random Error) and publishes no bound for it, so nations and regions may not add up exactly to the total. The verification page shows the gaps for information.
  • Each refresh compares the March figure with DWP's Annual DWP Benefits Statistics Compendium on GOV.UK, to the nearest thousand; every other month is checked against Stat-Xplore itself, queried twice.
  • The full series is on DWP's Stat-Xplore (stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk), where anyone with a free account can build the same table.