isleaiw1, on 20 April 2024 - 07:18 AM, said:
thanks. Data from 2022 indicates that there were 875,000 60 year olds. Numbers then dropped by about 30,000 for each subsequent year up to 65 year olds. Speculating that the population numbers haven't fallen since then. And speculating that 50% or more of these people were female. Suggests that there are about 2.4 million women who would have been classed as pensioners pre pension age change but aren't now. As to whether or not they are in work I don't know, but if they aren't in work they will now be classed as 'economically inactive' whereas in the past they would have been classed as pensioners.
I can't be bothered to do the mopre precise maths for men, but working on simply a one-year change in pension age from 65 to 66 that would bring an additional 350,000 or so men into the frame for potentially being 'economically inactive'. If correct, that gives 2.75 million (who would have been pensioners) in the 'economic activity' mix.
Obviously this isn't the entirely of those who are classed as 'economically inactive'; it's got to have made an impact though.