Press release No. 334 of 22 September 2016
WIESBADEN – In 2015, the at-risk-of-poverty rate was higher than in 2005 in all western Länder except Hamburg. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that over the past ten years the poverty risk rose most markedly in Nordrhein-Westfalen, where it increased 3.1 percentage points to 17.5% from 2005. Berlin (+2.7 percentage points) and Bremen (+2.5 percentage points) also recorded above-average increases of the poverty risk in 2015 compared with 2005.