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Risk of poverty rises: people of retirement age are more and more affected

2020-09-30T09:30:03.171Z


The risk of poverty increases for people aged 65 and over. In Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria in particular, the risk of impoverishment was particularly high last year.


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Older people in Germany are increasingly at risk of poverty.

The Federal Statistical Office found that your risk of impoverishment is becoming more and more similar to the overall population.

The increase in the at-risk-of-poverty rate since 2005 was greatest in the group aged 65 and over, the office announced in Wiesbaden on Wednesday.

The increase was therefore 4.7 points.

Last year, 15.7 percent of people in this age group were at risk of poverty.

The risk of poverty was almost as high as in the population as a whole, the rate here rose by 1.2 percentage points to 15.9 percent.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, poverty is defined in terms of household income and the resulting opportunities to participate in society.

The at-risk-of-poverty rate indicates the proportion of the population who have to get by on less than 60 percent of the median income.

For a one-person household, this limit was 1074 euros per month in 2019.

Lowest risk in Brandenburg and Schleswig-Holstein

Last year, older people had the highest risk of poverty in Saarland with a rate of 18.4 percent, followed by Rhineland-Palatinate with 17.8 percent and Bavaria with 17.5 percent.

According to the Federal Office, it was lowest in Brandenburg with 12.5 percent, Schleswig-Holstein with 13 percent and Thuringia and Saxony with 13.4 percent each.

The statistics show the highest increase since 2005 for Berlin with an increase of 7.4 points to 14.8 percent and North Rhine-Westphalia with 7.1 points to 16.8 percent.

The increase was similarly high in eastern and western Germany, but the level was different: in 2019 the rate in the east of 13.8 percent was lower than in western Germany (16.2 percent).

In eastern Germany, however, the increase is more significant, as the population is aging more - partly due to emigration, partly due to low immigration, explained the Federal Office.

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Source: spiegel

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