Press release No. 380 of 12 August 2021
WIESBADEN – A total of 21.8 million people in Germany received benefits to the amount of 341 billion euros from statutory, private or company pension schemes in 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was an increase of roughly 0.7%, or 146,000 pension recipients, on a year earlier. The amount of pensions paid increased by 4.1%, or 13.5 billion euros, in the same period. Just under 64% of the pension benefits in 2020 were considered taxable income (217 billion euros). Thus the average taxable pension share has been up by more than eight percentage points since 2015.
