El gasto en pensiones contributivas supone el 11,5% del PIB

Expenditure on contributory pensions stands at 11.5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the month of November.

The monthly payroll of the Social Security contributory benefits in the month of November was 12,100.8 million euros for the payment of the ordinary monthly payment. Along with this month’s payroll, the extraordinary pay of November 2023 is also paid, amounting to 11,823 million euros.

Distribution according to pension class
Almost three-quarters of the contributory pension payroll for November corresponds to retirement pensions, namely 73%, or €8,838.9 million. A total of Euro2,010.9 million has been earmarked for widowhood pensions, while the payroll for permanent disability benefits is Euro1,055.7 million, the payroll for orphans is Euro163.2 million and the payroll for family benefits is Euro32 million.
Of the 10,101,961 contributory pensions paid, 6,415,552 are for retirement, 2,355,361 for widows, 945,141 for permanent disability, 340,491 for orphans and 45,416 for relatives. The number of pensions is growing at a year-on-year rate of 1.3%.
For its part, the number of pensioners is 9,145,589. Of these, 4.6 million are men and 4.5 million women. The proportion of pensions per pensioner is 1.1 benefits per person. 
The pension with the most beneficiaries is that of retirement, with 6.3 million people. Of these, 60.1 per cent are men, while in the case of the widow ' s pension, of the 1.5 million people who receive it as the main benefit, 95.8 per cent are women. On the other hand, there are 940,387 permanent disability recipients, 322,796 orphans, and 44,770 family members.

Average pension
The average pension of the system amounts to 1,197.9 euros per month. This amount includes the different types of pension (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphanhood and in favour of family members). 
The average retirement pension, for its part, is 1,377.7 euros. By system, the average retirement pension from the General System is 1,533.7 euros per month, while the lowest is registered by the Autonomous System, with 917.6 euros per month. In Coal Mining, the average monthly retirement is 2,687.1 euros, and it is 1,527.4 euros in the Regime of the Sea. The average amount of new retirement increases in the system amounted in the month of October 2023 (last data) to 1,409.6 euros per month. 
For its part, the average widow’s pension is 853.7 euros per month.
The average time for settling the files in October (last data available) was 10.3 days in the case of the retirement pension and 15.1 days in the case of widows’ pensions. It must be taken into account that the maximum period of resolution in these procedures, according to RD 286/2003 of March 7 and RD 1192/2021, of August 3, is 90 days in both retirement and widow’s benefits.

Gender gap supplements
In November, 619,832 pensions received the gender gap supplement, of which 90.7% are women (562,184). The average monthly amount of this supplement in the pension is 65.4 euros. Of the 619,832 supplementary pensions, 23.2% are pensioners with one child (143,713), who previously had no access to the maternity supplement. 47.1% of the beneficiaries have two children (291,869); 19.3% have three children (119,582), and four children have 10.4% (64,668).

The gender gap supplement, in force since February 2021, consists of a fixed amount, after the revaluation applied in 2023, of 30.40 euros per month per child, which applies from the first child, unlike the previous maternity supplement. It is requested at the same time as the pension is requested.

Passive Classes
For its part, the monthly pension payroll of Passive Classes amounted to 1,514.8 million euros in the month of October, the last data available. This figure represents an increase of 166.4 million euros compared to the previous year, 12.3% more.
The number of pensions in force was 705,057, 14,267 more pensions than in the same month of the previous year (2.1% annual variation).
The Passive Class System of the State includes primarily military and civilian personnel of the General Administration of the State, the Administration of Justice, the General Courts and other constitutional or State bodies, as well as officials transferred to the autonomous communities.

Full information on contributory pensions in the Social Security System can be found in the attached file.
Likewise, the eSTADISS application, located in http://run.gob.es/estadiss,, allows to obtain statistical information on Social Security pensions, with selection of the parameters that are of interest and possibility to export the results in different formats.
For more statistical information on Passive Class pensions: https://www.portalclasespasivas.gob.es/