Press release No. N 049 of 1 August 2022
- Women in the EU left the parental home two years earlier on average than men in 2021
- Number of young parents in Germany dropped by 39.8% within 10 years
- Number of 15 to 24 year olds in a marriage or life partnership at lowest level in 30 years
WIESBADEN – Having reached adulthood, many young people also move out of the parental home sooner or later. Although rising rents and the Covid-19 pandemic made it more difficult in the last few years to take that step, more young people between 15 and 24 years stood on their own feet in 2021 than in the past ten years. 2.6 million of the just over 8.3 million young people in that age group, or 31.2%, were no longer living in their parents’ household in 2021. Their number and percentage increased over the last few years. In 2011 this applied to 2.4 million people of the respective age group, or 27.5%, as the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports in a series of releases to mark the European year of youth.
