Introduction

This section presents evidence on pension expenditures and recipients.

Pension expenditure

The next graph presents the total annual expenditures on pensions.

The next graph presents the pension expenditures that are allocated to each type of pension.

The next graph presents the pension expenditures that are allocated to each age group of pensioners.

The next graph shows the evolution of the mean and median pension income. This is the income of the average pensioner from all of the pensions that he/she might be receiving.

Pension recipients

The next graph shows the evolution of the number of pension recipients, in total and by the number of recipients of different types of pensions (old age, survivors, disability, early retirement benefit).

The next graph shows the distribution of pensioners by their age groups.

Applications and decisions about pensions

The next graph presents the number of new applications for pensions and decisions about pensions.

The next graph presents the evolution of pending pension applications.