Il 40% of retirees have a retirement income of less than thousand euros per month. It is revealed by theIstat, in its report on pensions and retirees. 39,1%, on the other hand, receive between one thousand and two thousand euros, 14,4% between two thousand and three thousand and the remaining 5,1% receive more than three thousand euros (4,7% between 3.000 and 5.000 euros ; 1,4% is over 5.000 euros).
Particularly disadvantaged, from this point of view, are the women, who represent 52,9% of pensioners, but receive allowances on average lower than those of men. Among women, in fact, the share of people who receive pensions of less than a thousand euros rises to 49,2%, against 30,3% of men.
In the year considered by the Istat report, 2014, theaverage annual amount of pensions showed an increase of 2,1% on an annual basis, settling at 11.943 euros, 245 euros more than in 2013.
Overall, spending on pension benefits grew by 1,6% compared to the previous year, to 277,067 billion euros, and its incidence on GDP grew by 0,2 percentage points from 16,97% to 17,17 2011%, despite the fact that between 2014 and 400 pensioners in Italy decreased by over 16,2 thousand units, to XNUMX million people.
