Press release No. 123 of 29 March 2023
WIESBADEN – Just under 1.4 million women and 482,000 men in Germany received parental allowance in 2022. This was a total of well over 1.8 million recipients, and a decrease of roughly 22,700, or 1.2%, compared with 2021. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of men who received parental allowance was up by 10,000 (+2.1%) on a year earlier. The number of women receiving parental allowance fell by 32,800 (-2.3%). As a result, the proportion of men receiving parental allowance (proportion of fathers) rose to 26.1% in 2022 (2021: 25.3%). This means that the proportion of fathers continued to increase. In 2015, it stood at 20.9%.
