DE · 2019 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Germany, 2019
In 2019, Germany's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 6.5% compared to 2018, reaching 15.7%.
The figure is below the EU-27 average of 17.2%.
Germany ranks 16th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 9.8% (from 17.4% in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.