Women receive fewer pensions than men, and pensioners in eastern Germany less than in the west.
The highest pension payments abroad go to the South Seas.
Berlin - The annual pension atlas of the German Pension Insurance (DRV) is a cornucopia of information.
The current edition shows that men still receive significantly higher pensions than women.
While men get an average of 1570 euros after at least 35 years of insurance, women only get 1173 euros.
These are the gross amounts.
This means that deductions from health and long-term care insurance and any income tax that may have to be paid are not taken into account.
Pension Atlas 2020: Pensioners in East Berlin receive the highest earnings
According to the 2020 Pension Atlas, there are also huge differences between the federal states.
Seniors from North Rhine-Westphalia get away best, their gross old-age pensions amount to an average of 1689 euros.
The DRV justifies the high level of pensions in North Rhine-Westphalia, but also in Saarland (1674 euros), with the fact that many of them used to work in well-paid mining jobs.
At the other end of the scale, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is € 1,405 for men.
Across gender boundaries, Saarland is also the federal state with the highest average pension with 1,545 euros, followed by North Rhine-Westphalia.
The five eastern German federal states are at the end of the ranking, Thuringia is the worst with 1292 euros.
The high pensions in East Berlin stand out.
The reason for this is the relatively high proportion of pensioners with entitlements from former supplementary and special pension systems in the GDR.
This also means that women in east Berlin receive the highest pension in Germany at 1,334 euros.
Overall, the difference between the average pensions for men and women in eastern Germany is smaller than in the west.
The most important reason is that women in the east were less employed part-time, so that the income differences there are smaller than in the west.
Pension Atlas 2020: Seven percent of all payments are transferred abroad
Many pensioners live in other countries.
According to the Rentenatlas, the pension insurance transferred almost 1.76 million pensions abroad in 2019, which corresponds to around seven percent of all payments.
The majority, 1.51 million, went to foreign insured persons, for example guest workers who returned home after their working life in Germany.
On average, the amounts involved are around 350 euros.
The largest group among them are Italian pensioners with around 367,000 payments, which averaged EUR 246.
Other large groups of foreigners who have fully or partially earned their pensions in Germany are retirees from the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from Spain, Greece and Austria.
Pension Atlas 2020: The highest payments go to the South Seas
Further figures come from the
dpa
, which refers to a response from the Ministry of Labor to a question from the FDP parliamentary group.
Accordingly, the highest average pension payments in the past year flowed to Micronesia with 1,533 euros and to Palau with 1,336 euros.
However, the number of recipients in the South Seas paradises is negligible with less than five each.
Relatively high pensions also flowed to the Central African Republic, Qatar and the Caribbean state of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, with an average of 900 to 1200 euros.
The lowest pension payments went to Burkina Faso at around 90 euros and to Kosovo at around 205 euros.
More and more German pensioners are moving abroad, their number rose from around 229,000 in 2015 to 248,000 last year.
Most of them live in Switzerland (26,639), Austria (26,331) and the USA (23,673).
Pension Atlas 2020: Federal government injects almost 78 billion euros
The pension scheme spent a total of 324.8 billion euros in 2019.
Around 90 percent of this was accounted for by
pension payments.
With 22.1 billion euros, the second largest expenditure package is the health insurance of the pensioners, i.e. the contribution of the pension insurance for the health insurance of the pensioners.
For the administration, 4.1 billion euros went on it.
The lion's share of the total income comes from the contributions of the 38.7 million actively insured persons with 248.0 billion euros.
77.6 billion euros were paid as federal grants.
In addition to the actively insured, there are 17.4 million passively insured.
These are people without an account change in the reporting year, for example housewives after the end of the child-rearing period.
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