Number of Beneficiaries by Age

Beneficiaries by

Graphs of the number of primary beneficiaries by age and sex

Monthly benefits are payable from the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Funds. Growth in the number of beneficiaries over time may be seen in a graph for broad classes of beneficiaries.

Using the form below, you can see the number of currently paid beneficiaries by age. Just select the benefit type and click on "Go."

Privacy consideration—if there are only 1 or 2 beneficiaries in a given table cell, we show a value of 0 for the number of beneficiaries and show no benefit amount.

Benefits in current payment status at the end of June 2009
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**Social Security beneficiaries aged 62 and over, end of June 2009**
(number in thousands)
Age group	Total	Male		Female
Age group	Total	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
62-69	15,385	7,102	46.2	8,283	53.8
70-84	20,558	9,020	43.9	11,539	56.1
85 & over	4,995	1,596	31.9	3,399	68.1
Total, age 62 & over	40,938	17,718	43.3	23,221	56.7

Note: Excludes adults who became disabled as children.
Totals do not necessarily equal the sum of rounded components.


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