About this data

Source: DWP, State Pension age timetables (Pensions Acts 1995, 2007, 2011 and 2014)

• The State Pension age was 65 for men and 60 for women from 1948. Women's age rose to 65 between 2010 and 2018, and both rose to 66 by October 2020.
• It is rising to 67 between 2026 and 2028, and, under current law, to 68 between 2044 and 2046. The government's third review of the State Pension age is due by March 2029.
• Ages are shown at 1 July each year; because they rise by date of birth, the age changes gradually, a month or two at a time.

This chart appears in Pensions.