The average monthly pension stood at 2,942 lei in the second quarter of 2026, up 0.3% from the previous quarter, while the average number of pensioners was 4.913 million, down by 7,000 people, according to data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The average number of state social insurance pensioners was 4.573 million, down by 4,000 people from the previous quarter. The average monthly pension, taking into account the gross amounts paid by pension houses to all categories of pensioners – social insurance, disability, survivors’ pensions, etc. – was 2,942 lei, up 0.3% from the previous quarter. The real average pension index, calculated as the ratio between the net nominal pension index and the consumer price index, stood at 98.1%. Compared with the second quarter of the previous year, the average number of pensioners fell by 5,000, while the number of state social insurance pensioners increased by 11,000.
Both the average monthly pension and the average monthly state social insurance pension increased by 0.3% compared with the same quarter of the previous year. Compared with the first quarter of 2026, the average number of pensioners fell by 7,000, while the average number of state social insurance pensioners decreased by 4,000. The average monthly pension increased by 0.3% from the previous quarter, while the average state social insurance pension increased by 0.04%. In the second quarter, state social insurance pensioners accounted for the majority (93.1%) of the total number of social insurance pensioners. By pension category, old-age pensioners accounted for the largest share (80.7%) of social insurance pensioners, followed by survivors’ pension beneficiaries, at 9.6%, and disability pensioners, who accounted for 8%. The smallest share was made up of early and partially early retirees, at 1.6%.
As regards the number of social insurance pensioners receiving old-age pensions, women accounted for 55% of the total, or 2.17 million women. The total number of beneficiaries of the provisions of Government Emergency Ordinance No. 6/2009 on the introduction of the social allowance stood at 885,900 in the second quarter of 2026. Of these, 844,100 were from the state social insurance system, equivalent to 18.5% of all state social insurance pensioners; 37,900 were pensioners from the former agricultural pension system, equivalent to 35.5% of all agricultural pensioners; and 3,900 were from the military pension system, equivalent to 1.7% of all military pensioners.
