This paper presents a brief analysis of recent evolutions of some indicators regarding social protection in the Republic of Moldova. These indicators include the number of beneficiaries of various types of pensions and the sizes of the pensions themselves. In particular they include: old-age pension, disability pension, survivor's pension, pension for seniority, pension for some categories of civil aviation employees, pension of the participants in the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident, pension of military servicemen and their family members, pension of some employees in the field of culture, early retirement pension and pension for other categories of pensioners.