The latest report of the Social Insurance Institution "Analysis of the results of the examination of retirement periods" shows that the average pensioner receives a benefit for over 18 years. In 2011, the period of collecting pensions was 16 years and 2 months, and in 2017 it was 18 years and two months.There is also a growing difference in the length of retirement pensions according to the gender criterion.Women receive a pension by 3.5 years longer than men (in 2011 they were taken by two years and two months longer). Retirement for the longest time is taken by creators and artists and teachers (on average for about 25 years) and the shortest - entrepreneurs (nearly 16 years). The average age of respondents at the time of granting the pension was 60.3 years.Men began to take old-age pensions at the age of 61.4, and women at the age of 58.7. The average pensioner is 78 years old and 6 months old, has an insurance internship of over 30 years (female) and over 35 years (male).source: ZUS