Madeira registered, at the end of 2025, 67,400 Social Security pensioners, 63.8% of whom received old age pensions, 26.2% of survival and 10.1% of disability, the Madeiran Government reported today.
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12/10/2026
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A Madeira registered, at the end of 2025, 67,400 social security pensioners, 63.8% of whom received old-age pensions, 26.2% of survival and 10.1% of disability, the Madeiran Government reported today.
In the information disclosed, the Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira (DREM) stressed that the total number of pensioners represents 25.3% of the population residing in this autonomous region.
According to data from DREM, the average annual pension value was EUR 7,135 and the average annual old age pension was the highest (EUR 8,510). It added that these amounts exceed the average annual value of invalidity and survivors' pensions (EUR 6,833).
Compared to the previous year (2024), there was an increase “of 5.0% in the average annual pension value, with increases of 5.2% in invalidity pensions, 4.9% in old age pensions and 4.5% in survivors’ pensions”, is mentioned in the document.
DREM stressed that in 2025, “the processed amounts of social benefits referred to above totalled EUR 481.2 million”. Of this amount, 76.1% corresponded to old age pensions (EUR 366.1 million), 14.3% to survivors' pensions (EUR 68.8 million) and 9.6% to invalidity pensions (EUR 46.3 million), specified.
“ In the pensions under analysis, and compared to 2024, there were 7.2% increases in the amounts processed in invalidity pensions, 6.4% in old age pensions and 4.4% in survivors' pensions,” he said.
Regarding unemployment benefit, he pointed out that it was paid to 6,000 people, which means a reduction of 6.5% compared to 2024, 43.2% men and 56.8% women.
In an assessment of the beneficiaries’ age group, he said that the group with the lowest number “was that of young people (less than 25 years), corresponding to 6.6% of the total”, while the largest number are “individuals aged 55 and older, aged 30.4%, followed by groups from 30 to 39 years (21.4%) and 40 to 49 years (18.8%)”.
On the social security family benefits he added that there was a reduction in the number of beneficiaries of family allowances for children and young people (-1.4%), as well as in the number of beneficiaries of the initial parental allowance (-0.6%).
With regard to the social income of insertion, it benefited 3.2 thousand individuals (less than 21.3% compared to 2024), of which 47.5% belonged to the male sex, with 36.5% being 55 years old and 30% less than 25.
“ The value processed in this social benefit was EUR 4.9 million and decreased by 20.4% compared to 2024”, he said.
EUR 16.4 million was also processed for the 3,741 beneficiaries of social benefit for inclusion.
As for sickness benefits, between 2024 and 2025, there was a 9.4% increase in the number of beneficiaries, a total of 21,800 individuals, totaling 8.9 ME, plus 11.2% more than in the previous year.
“The average number of days processed with this type of subsidies reached, in 2025, 68 days, which represents a decrease of 3 days compared to the previous year,” he concluded.