Wage and income tax Statistics of pension benefit notifications

Number of pension recipients resident in Germany and amounts of benefit

Statistics of pension benefit notifications, 2024
Number of pension1 recipients resident in Germany and amounts of benefit,
broken down by taxation approach and by size class of the sum of pension benefits
Size class -
sum of pension
benefits from ... EUR
to less than ... EUR		Sum of pension benefits2
totalof which, by taxation approach:
cohort principletaxation of notional interest portionfull deferred taxation
Cases1,000 EURCases1,000 EURCases1,000 EURCases1,000 EUR
1: Pensions in accordance with Section 22 numbers 1 and 5 of the German Income Tax Act.
2: Not including pensions in accordance with the taxation approaches "harmful tax usage" and "other tax approaches".
less than 029,604-29,2239,364-19,0822,345-1,90218,901-8,239
0 to 2,5001,224,8321,638,617900,1151,293,937194,007147,240239,267197,439
2,500 to 5,0001,468,3485,508,6741,358,9005,023,012147,914249,495124,330236,166
5,000 to 7,5001,467,8609,192,4101,400,5868,594,920164,746355,444107,773242,046
7,500 to 10,0001,579,65513,850,6431,535,47013,149,032207,714446,867130,462254,744
10,000 to 15,0003,647,55145,908,5873,591,88143,932,094606,0251,390,015396,024586,478
15,000 to 20,0003,796,87066,300,4003,770,12663,345,187891,0982,175,685614,981779,528
20,000 to 30,0006,163,152151,882,3416,138,989141,941,5872,302,5357,552,6481,562,8202,388,106
30,000 or more2,933,876108,242,1852,911,19090,872,6721,609,73710,665,6101,205,5866,703,904
Total22,311,748402,494,63321,616,621368,133,3586,126,12122,981,1024,400,14411,380,172

As at 08 August 2025

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