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Date: May 19, 2025 Unattached people (including people living alone)
Tables on the subject: This table contains information on unattached people, by age, in eastern, western and all of Germany in 2024, including people living alone.
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Date: May 19, 2025 Families and family members with minor children living in the family
Tables on the subject: This table contains information on families and family members in eastern, western and all of Germany in 2024
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Date: May 19, 2025 Couples with and without children
Tables on the subject: This table contains information on couples with and without children in eastern, western and all of Germany in 2024
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Press release No. N 015 of 7 March 2023 Gender pension gap: retirement income of women almost one third below that of men in 2021
In terms of both their average income and their retirement income, women are worse off than men. According to results of the survey of income and living conditions (EU-SILC) 2021, women aged 65 or over received gross retirement income of 17,814 euros …
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Press release No. 034 of 26 January 2023 Microcensus 2023 has started: official survey of 1% of the population
The microcensus 2023 has started. Using a statistical random method, a total of roughly 810,000 people in about 380,000 households and collective living quarters are selected and surveyed from January to December 2023. This is approximately 1% of the …
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Press release No. N 061 of 29 September 2022 More than one quarter of pensioners have a monthly net income of under 1,000 euros
The third relief package of the Federal Government will support pensioners through a one-time energy price allowance. The focus is on those with lower income. 4.9 million pensioners had a personal monthly net income of under 1,000 euros in 2021, as …
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Press release No. N 051 of 11 August 2022 International Youth Day: half of the 15 to 24 year olds mainly lived on the income of family members in 2021
Looking at how young people live often leads to the question how they make their living. The fact that most of the 15 to 24 year olds are still in school, university or training has an impact on their financial situation. To mark the International …
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Press release No. N 049 of 1 August 2022 10 year high: nearly one third of the 15 to 24 year olds no longer lived in their parents’ household in 2021
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 …
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Press release No. N 019 of 8 April 2022 Three fourths of children in Germany living with their siblings
Most children in Germany grow up with siblings. To mark World Siblings Day on 10 April, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that just under 10.3 million of the 13.6 million children under the age of 18 lived in the same household as …
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Press release No. 140 of 31 March 2022 46% of the population lived on their income from employment in 2021
Employment was the main source of livelihood for almost half (46 %) of the population in Germany in 2021. Based on first microcensus results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that these were 37.6 million people. Employment was the …
