In its latest Poverty Watch Report the German National Poverty Conference (Nationale Armutskonferenz) maps poverty in the country and zooms in on the situation of people experiencing poverty or social exclusion.
One of the observations is that after a significant increase in the percentage of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion between 2020 and 2021; from 20,4% to 21%; the percentage remained almost the same between 2021 and 2022; at 20,9%. As the population grew in the meantime, the absolute number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion increased by 100.000 in 2022, from 17,3 to 17,4 million.
