The average retirement pension stood at 1,041.15 euros, 2.1% higher than for the same period last year. The average pension from the Spanish Social Security system as a whole, which includes all the various types of pension available (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphanhood, and those paid out to relatives), stood at 902.31 euros, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.88%.
In summary, today the public system comprises 9,384,016 contributory pensions in total, an increase of 1.13% on last year. At 5,712,582, more than half of these are retirement pensions, while 2,355,188 are widowhood pensions, 936,281 are permanent disability pensions, 340,462 are orphanhood pensions and 39,503 are pensions paid out to relatives.
Pool Moncloa