Press release No. 327 of 4 August 2022
WIESBADEN – Roughly 13.0 million people in Germany were at risk of poverty in 2021. This is 15.8% of Germany's population. The proportion of people at risk of poverty in the population thus is at roughly the same level as a year earlier, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of first results of the statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) 2021. In 2020, the figure was 13.2 million people, which was 16.1% of the population.
