Parental and children's allowance

Press releases

29 March 2023 Parental allowance 2022: proportion of fathers continued to increase to 26.1%

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%.

31 March 2022 Parental allowance in 2021: increase in proportion of fathers continues

25 March 2021 Parental allowance 2020: proportion of fathers up to just under 25%

19 March 2020 Parental allowance: number of recipients up 2% in 2019

11 April 2019 Parental allowance: number of recipients up 4% in 2018

14 June 2018 Parental allowance paid to 1.76 million mothers and fathers in 2017

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Tables

Parental Allowance

Receipt of parental allowance

Participation rate of fathers for children born in

Database

GENESIS-Online

More data are available from the GENESIS-Online database on the themes:

Statistics of parental allowance
Statistics of home childcare allowance
Statistics of children's allowance

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

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