This page will no longer be updated. It contains results from the continuous household budget surveys and the sample survey of income and expenditure up to the 2021 survey year.

The European EU-SILC survey is the official main data source for measuring income, the risk of poverty and living conditions. Therefore, current results for household income can be found under income, living conditions, risk of poverty.

Current results for household expenditure from the continuous household budget surveys and the sample survey of income and expenditure can be found under consumption expenditure.

Receipts, expenditure

Topics Income, consumption and living conditions
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Pressemitteilungen

21 June 2022 2.2 million photovoltaic power stations installed in Germany

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23 May 2022 Ticket prices in short-distance transport up 19% on 2015

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11 March 2021 Value added tax reduction: nearly one fourth of households made additional purchases or made them earlier than planned

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12 February 2021 Households spent an average of 1,500 euros on insurance services in 2019

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29 October 2020 14% of the population affected by excessive housing costs in 2019

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Current news

Database

GENESIS-Online

More data on income, receipts and expenditure are available from the GENESIS-Online database.

The database content will continuously be extended, and links will be provided here.

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Graphics

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Household gross income

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Net income of households by household type

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Taxes and social contributions by household type