Pensioners, 4.6 million with less than one thousand euros. 34% more for men than for women
364 billion spent on pensions in 2024, +4.9 %
The benefits of the Italian pension system in force as at 31 December 2024 are 23,015,011, for a total annual amount of 364,132 million euro and an increase of 4.93% over the previous year. This emerges from the Inps Observatory on the Pensioners' Register. There are 16,305,880 beneficiaries of pension benefits (+0.5% compared to 2023); each of them receives an average of 1.4 pensions, also of different types. The average amount of pension income for each beneficiary is 22,331 euro. Although women represent the majority share of the total number of pensioners (51%), men receive 56% of pension income: the average annual amount of income received by men is in fact 34% higher than that of women (25,712 against 19,140 euro).
The average amount
L’importo medio per la singola prestazione è di 15.821 euro mentre l’importo medio del reddito da pensione per beneficiario nel 2024 è di 22.331 euro. Circa due terzi (68,1%) dei beneficiari di prestazioni pensionistiche percepisce una sola prestazione, mentre circa un terzo (il 31,9%) ne percepisce due o più. In particolare, il 24% dei beneficiari percepisce due prestazioni, il 6,7% tre e l’1,2% quattro o più. All’interno del gruppo dei titolari di più di una pensione la presenza femminile è dominante e aumenta al crescere del numero dei trattamenti pro capite: le pensionate rappresentano infatti il 58% dei titolari di due pensioni, il 68,3% dei percettori di tre pensioni e il 68,9% dei titolari di quattro o più trattamenti. Le pensioni di tipo Ivs (invalidità, vecchiaia e anzianità/anticipate, superstiti) sono il 77,2% del totale delle pensioni, di cui il 53,8% relativo alle pensioni di vecchiaia/anticipate, il 3,9% a quelle di invalidità e il 19,5% a quelle ai superstiti. Le prestazioni d
The distribution of performance
The total amounts have a more marked distribution towards pensions of the Ivs type, which cover 90.7% of the total; (73.7% of the total for old age/retirement pensions). The remaining 9.3% is distributed as follows: 1.2% on benefits of the indemnity type and 8.1% on those of the welfare type. An analysis of the territorial distribution of pensions and pensioners shows that the northern regions have a greater number of both pensions and pensioners (47.3% and 47.7% of the total respectively). The average pension amounts are higher in the north than in the rest of Italy (+8.1 percentage points compared to the national average).
4.6 million pensioners with an allowance under one thousand euro
In Italy in 2024 almost 4.6 million pensioners, 28.1% of the total, had a pension income of less than one thousand euros per month. This emerges from the Inps Observatory on the pensioners' register according to which the total amount received by the two weakest bands of the pensioner population (up to 499.99 euros and between 500 and 999.99) is 8.8% of the total. Among women 34.5% have a pension income of less than one thousand euros (almost 2.89 million) while among men only 21.4%. of the total. There are 16.3 million pensioners overall and among these only 450,067 have pension incomes of more than 5 thousand euros (2.8% of the total) for a total amount equal to 10.2% of the total.
