Azerbaijan Has 3.35 Million Individual Social Security Accounts
According to the State Social Protection Fund (SSPF) at the Ministry of Labor AR, 3,352,983 individual social insurance accounts were registered by December 1 (+ 5.4%, or 172.83 thousand to January 1).
According to the Ministry of Labor reported that most of the insured (59.27%) are men. Just over a quarter (25.6%) is aged 30 to 40 years. Slightly less (20%) is under the age of 30 years, 21% - from 50 to 60, 20% - 40-50, and the rest - over 60 years.
Recall that in the country there are 4.7 million working people. The reform of the pension system started in Azerbaijan on January 1, 2006, within which the system of individual registration of social insurance was introduced. --17D-
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