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Germany: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Germany Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Germany

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

16.10 Percent of people

European ranking

14 / 30

Worsened by 2 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+0.8 puntos

Germany is 0.8 points above the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 13.46 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 16.10 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Bremen

    +70.80

    27.50

  2. 2

    Trier

    +32.90

    21.40

  3. 3

    Sachsen-Anhalt

    +32.30

    21.30

  4. 4

    Weser-Ems

    +29.20

    20.80

  5. 5

    Arnsberg

    +21.70

    19.60

  6. 6

    Kassel

    +19.30

    19.20

  7. 7

    Hamburg

    +17.40

    18.90

  8. 8

    Berlin

    +16.10

    18.70

  9. 9

    Gießen

    +14.30

    18.40

  10. 10

    Münster

    +13.70

    18.30

  11. 11

    Chemnitz

    +13.00

    18.20

  12. 12

    Thüringen

    +8.10

    17.40

  13. 13

    Leipzig

    +8.10

    17.40

  14. 14

    Köln

    +5.60

    17.00

  15. 15

    Detmold

    +5.00

    16.90

  16. 16

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

    +4.30

    16.80

  17. 17

    Schleswig-Holstein

    +4.30

    16.80

  18. 18

    Rheinhessen-Pfalz

    +4.30

    16.80

  19. 19

    Braunschweig

    +3.70

    16.70

  20. 20

    Düsseldorf

    +2.50

    16.50

  21. 21

    Hannover

    +1.90

    16.40

  22. 22

    Darmstadt

    +1.90

    16.40

  23. 23

    Saarland

    -3.70

    15.50

  24. 24

    Karlsruhe

    -7.50

    14.90

  25. 25

    Dresden

    -7.50

    14.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Germany performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Germany

In Germany, Poverty risk is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 16.1% versus 16.2% in 2025, a gap of 0.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Germany, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 16.10% in 2020 to 16.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 15.50% in 2024 to 16.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Germany

In Germany, regional differences in Poverty risk are pronounced. Across 38 comparable regions, Bremen records the highest value (27.5%) and Schwaben the lowest (11.4%), a gap of 16.1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Germany, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.