The average pension in Ukraine is currently UAH 6,544, according to the Pension Fund of Ukraine. The payment increased by 13% over the year. Every fifth Ukrainian pensioner receives an average pension of about 4,500 UAH. 63,000 pensioners receive payments below the subsistence level, and 261,000 receive payments at the level of UAH 2,361. In total, there are more than 10.1 million pensioners in Ukraine this year, and almost 73% of them receive an old-age pension.
There are currently 10.17 million pensioners in Ukraine. The vast majority – 73% of pensioners – receive old-age payments: 7.4 million Ukrainians. Another 1.5 million citizens (15%) live on a disability pension, about 700,000 or 7% receive a survivor’s benefit, and 5% or 500,000 have a long service pension. Social pensions and lifetime pensions for judges make up less than 1%.
The average pension in Ukraine is currently UAH 6,544. The payment increased by 13% over the year. However, not everyone has such pensions: more than a third of pensioners receive about UAH 3,250. It is worth noting that the share of such pensioners decreased from 44% to 35% over the year.
Another 15% of pensioners – more than 1.5 million people – receive payments of more than UAH 10,000, and the average pension in this group reaches UAH 16,000. Another 30% of Ukrainians on pensions live on an average of UAH 6,860, and one in five receives about UAH 4.5 thousand per month.
At the same time, 63 thousand pensioners receive a pension below the subsistence level, and 261 thousand Ukrainians live on this minimum: UAH 2,361.
Most pensioners live in Dnipropetrovs’k region – 867 thousand, followed by Kyiv (746 thousand), Kharkiv (687 thousand) and Lviv (665 thousand) regions. The lowest number of pensioners is registered in Kherson (202 thousand) and Chernivtsi (203 thousand) regions.
The amount of payments also differs: the highest average pensions are traditionally in the capital – almost UAH 9 thousand, the lowest – in Ternopil region: about UAH 5 thousand. Although pensions grew by 13% across the country, in some regions the growth was much more significant, such as Rivne (+24%) and Volyn (+20%).
The majority of pensioners – over 82% – receive payments through banks, most often through PrivatBank and Oschadbank. At the same time, pensions are not the only source of income for many: one in four pensioners in Ukraine continues to work.
There are 2.8 million such people, and their average pension is UAH 7,160. As of January 28, UAH 3,250 is about 63 euros at the NBU exchange rate.
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