The average retirement pension stood at 1,063.14 euros, 2.01% 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 920.22 euros, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.89%.
In summary, the public system currently comprises more than 9.5 million contributory pensions (9,505,965) in total, an increase of 1.1% on last year. At 5,815,073, more than half of these are retirement pensions, while 2,360,021 are widowhood pensions, 947,616 are permanent disability pensions, 341,648 are orphanhood pensions and 40,707 are pensions paid out to relatives.
EFE