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The statistical report of the General Authority for Social Insurance for the second quarter of this year revealed that the average monthly salaries of Bahrainis increased to 921 dinars compared to 893 dinars for last year, and the average monthly pensions for living pensioners also increased from 819 dinars until the end of 2024 to reach 863 dinars for the second quarter of 2025.
The number of subscribers in the public and private sectors witnessed an equal increase of 2% compared to their counterpart in the year 2024, with the index of living pensioners decreasing by 1% for the same period in the two sectors, and the number of eligible persons increasing by 2% for the public sector and 3% for the private sector.
The report showed that there are 156,405 Bahraini subscribers in the two sectors of social insurance, with a percentage of 33% in the public and 67% in the private sector. The number of living pensioners as of the second quarter is 85,075 subscribers, 43% in the public sector and 57% in the private, while the number of those eligible for the same period is 25,127 eligible, including 47% in the public sector and 53% in the private.
The average monthly salary for Bahraini subscribers subject to the retirement law is 921 dinars, with an average age of 36 years, while the average monthly pension for living retirees is 863 dinars, with an average age of 58 years, and the average pension for those eligible is 376 dinars.
Regarding the average monthly salary until the second quarter, the report monitored an overall average of 921 dinars, while the average for males was 996 dinars and for females was 818 dinars. The overall average age was 36 years for male subscribers and 35 for females, and the early retirement rate reached 88% of the total living pensioners, compared to 12% for regular retirement.
The average general monthly pension for the living was 863 dinars, reaching 916 dinars for men and 770 dinars for women. The number of living pensioners witnessed an increase, reaching 85,075 eligible people in the second quarter of the current year compared to the first quarter, where the number was 84,862 eligible people.
In comparison with the first quarter: The number of Bahraini subscribers increased by 0.5%, as it was 155,596 subscribers in the first quarter, and 156,405 subscribers in the second quarter. The number of living pensioners also witnessed an increase of 0.25%, as their number in the first quarter reached 84,862 compared to 85,075 in the second quarter, and an increase in the number of eligible beneficiaries by 0.4%, as the number of eligible beneficiaries in the first quarter reached 25,023 eligible people. It rose in the second quarter to 25,127 due.
The number of those subject to the retirement law varied in the public and private sectors, as they were 51,138 subscribers in the public sector for the first quarter, and their number increased by 232 subscribers for the second quarter, but the number was larger in the private sector, where the number of subscribers was 574,603 for the first quarter and they witnessed an increase of 697 subscribers for the second quarter.
According to the gender of the insured, women outnumbered the number in the second quarter compared to the first quarter for the private sector, where the total number of females for the first quarter was 114,133, with an increase of 1,394 insured women, while the difference among males was 465 insured persons.
The number of insured foreigners witnessed a slight increase by 120 insured persons, compared to 809 Bahrainis, compared between the first and second quarters, where their number in the first quarter was 470,145 insured persons, and reached 470,265 in the second quarter, while the number of insured Bahrainis in the first quarter was 155,596 and rose to 156,405 insured persons.
