The number of pensioners decreased by 400,000 in six months

For six months, the number of pensioners in Russia has decreased by 404,200 people, follows from the data of the Social Fund. As of January 1, 2023, there were 41.78 million of them, and on July 1 – already 41.38 million. This is the minimum figure for the entire period of the pension reform.

If we consider the total number of pensioners by category, then at the end of the first half of the year, the number of employees amounted to 7.8 million people. This is 82,500 less than at the beginning of the year. In July, working pensioners were paid an average of 16,114 rubles each, over six months the amount increased by 717 rubles. There were 33.5 million unemployed, while on January 1 there were 321,700 more. In this category, the average size of the assigned pension increased from 20,239 to 20,260 rubles. The highest payments are received by residents of Chukotka (31,683 rubles), the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (29,268 rubles), which is part of the Arkhangelsk region, and the Kamchatka Territory (28,287 rubles), this is due to regional allowances. The smallest pensions are in the republics with a high level of poverty – Dagestan (14,473 rubles), Kabardino-Balkaria (14,792 rubles) and Ingushetia (15,454 rubles). The average size of the assigned pension in Russia for working and non-working pensioners has grown from 19,322 to 19,475 rubles in six months.