Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht Informationserteilung

Would you like to find out more about the social situation in Germany? Then you can view the Poverty and Wealth Report.

The Poverty and Wealth Report provides you with up-to-date information on the social situation in Germany.

The report contains many data and figures that provide information about poverty and wealth in Germany.

You will find out how various areas that influence people's social situation have developed. These include, for example

• Income distribution
• distribution of wealth
• Receipt of social benefits
• childcare
• Investment in education
• Employment
• Unemployment
• Home ownership of private households
• Housing cost burden
• Relationship between health and social situation
• Socio-ecological transformation

The aim of the report is not only to present the poverty situation in Germany, but also to analyze it. The aim is to review the effectiveness of existing measures and identify policy options for preventing and combating poverty. At the same time, it shows how complex and multi-layered the reasons are that lead to poverty or wealth.

The report is published regularly in the middle of a legislative period, i.e. between two federal elections.

There are no costs.

• Go to the website of the Poverty and Wealth Report.
• The Poverty and Wealth Report is available in an accessible format.
• You can open the "Report" tab with background information on the current and previous reports.
• You can open the "Indicators" tab. There you will find all the data from the current and past reports. By comparing the data, you can see their development.

There is no deadline.

There are no indications or special features.

No legal remedy is provided for.

• Poverty and Wealth Report provides information on the social situation in Germany
• collects all data and figures that illustrate poverty and wealth in Germany
• Various areas are considered, for example
  • income distribution
  • wealth distribution
  • health
  • social mobility
  • childcare
  • Investment in education
  • employment
  • Unemployment
  • Home ownership of private households
  • Housing cost burden
• The poverty situation is not only presented, but also analyzed
• This allows the effectiveness of previous measures to be reviewed and political options for action to prevent and combat poverty to be identified
• The reasons that lead to poverty or wealth are complex
• The Poverty and Wealth Report is published in the middle of each legislative period, i.e. between two Bundestag elections
• The report is accessible on the Internet and is available in both sign language and easy-to-read.