The authorities disclosed the number of pensioners in Russia and their average pension

The number of pensioners registered with the Social Fund for the year decreased by 232 thousand people after a reduction of 970 thousand during the pandemic. Their pensions increased by an average of 14%, to ₽20.7 thousand.

As of January 1, 2023, the number of pensioners registered with the Social Fund of RUSSIA (SFR, formed as a result of the merger of the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund) amounted to 41.78 million people, having decreased over the year by 232 thousand people, or 0.6% . This follows from the SFR data, which RBC got acquainted with. The decline in the number of pensioners has slowed by more than four times compared to 2021, when it reached 970 thousand people, setting an absolute anti-record since the early 1990s. We are talking about the number of pensioners registered with the SFR: this figure does not include recipients of pensions in the system of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and other law enforcement agencies.

The number of "civilian" pensioners in Russia has been declining since 2019, when a gradual increase in the retirement age began. In 2020, the decline accelerated significantly due to the covid-19 pandemic . In 2021, the contribution of excess mortality to the outflow of pensioners amounted to about 200 thousand people, the HEAD of the Pension Fund Andrei Kigim estimated at that time. As noted by the Accounts Chamber in its opinion on the draft budget of the FIS, the average annual number of pensioners in 2022 was to be 42.2 million and decrease to 41.9 million people by 2025.

In 2022, the recipients of the insurance old-age pension made the main contribution to the decrease in the number of pensioners - they decreased by 372.3 thousand people. But due to the fact that among the recipients of other categories of payments (for long service, for disability, for the loss of a breadwinner, social pensions) there was no decline, the total number of Russians registered with the SFR decreased less significantly.

A feature of 2022 was a sharp reduction in working pensioners. Their number decreased over the year by 600 thousand (almost 7%) and amounted to 7.9 million people. This is the minimum value since 2004, when there were 7.8 million. As RBC wrote earlier, the largest decrease occurred in the third quarter. In parallel with this, the number of non-working pensioners increased in 2022: by 369.6 thousand (1%), up to 33.8 million people. This may mean that some of the working pensioners have moved into the status of unemployed.

The authorities also disclosed the average pension by category of pensioners. According to the SFR, at the end of 2022, the growth rate of payments exceeded inflation (11.94%). Thus, the average value of the insurance old-age pension reached 20.6 thousand rubles, an increase of 14% compared to last year's figure, social pension - 12.1 thousand rubles. (+18.9%), and disability payments - 12.5 thousand rubles. (+13%). The gap between the average pensions of working and non-working pensioners has widened considerably. If, as of January 1, 2022, it was 3.5 thousand rubles. in favor of the unemployed, then a year later - almost 5 thousand rubles. The increase in the difference was caused by an unscheduled indexation of pensions of non-working pensioners by 10% in the spring of 2022. It was this factor that provoked an increase in the number of non-working pensioners, experts previously interviewed by RBC said.

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In 2022, the covid factor in the decline in the number of pensioners has not yet completely exhausted itself, although it has decreased, says Alexander Safonov, professor at the Financial University under the government. It is expressed not so much in direct mortality from CORONAVIRUS, the statistics of which no longer even appear in the public domain, but in the exacerbation of chronic diseases. “We will see the echoes of the coronavirus in the dynamics of the number of pensioners in 2023,” he predicts. However, it is the increase in the retirement age that will have the greatest impact: for example, in 2023, due to the peculiarities of the transition period, there will be no new pensioners, so there will be a net outflow due to natural mortality.

According to the approved schedule, women born in the second half of 1965 and men born in the second half of 1960 retired in 2022 at the age of 56.5 and 61.5 respectively. And those born in 1961 (men) and in 1966 (women) will retire as early as 2024 at the age of 63 and 58.