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The average number of pensioners reached 5.224 million in Q3, down one thousand people as compared to the previous quarter, while the overall ratio between the average number of state social insurance pensioners and the employees' number was 9 to 10, show data of the National Institute of Statistics (INS) released on Monday.
Moreover, the real average pension index as against the previous quarter, calculated as the ratio between the nominal pension index and the consumer price index, was 107.5 pct.
As regards the overall ratio of the average number of state social insurance pensioners and that of employees, it was 9 to 10, with significant discrepancies according to territorial profile, from merely 5 pensioners to 10 employees in Bucharest to 17 pensioners to 10 employees in southern Teleorman county.
According to INS, the average state social insurance pension varied according to territorial profile, the gap between the maximum and minimum value being 500 lei , 860 lei in Botosani county respectively, as compared to 1,360 lei in Bucharest.
The social insurance pensioners hold the largest share (99.9 pct) in the total number of pensioners. The state social insurance pensioners represent 89.6 pct of the total social security benefits.
By categories of pensions, the number of old age pensioners held the largest share (76.1pct) within the number of social insurance pensioners. The anticipated and partial anticipated categories of pensioners represented 1.9 pct.
AGERPRES .
