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13 Million People In Germany Live In Poverty As Rate Skyrockets To 16.1%

🇩🇪 Germany's poverty rate surged to a record high of 16.1% in 2025, leaving around 13.3 million people listed as poor, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Parity Welfare Association, an umbrella group for charitable organizations in the country.

“Social divisions in Germany are widening. 13.3 million people live in poverty, and the poverty rate has risen to 16.1 percent.

"At the same time, the gap between regions and demographic groups is growing. While poverty is increasing overall, it is becoming particularly entrenched among older adults, women, and single parents," Joachim Rock, the executive director of the association, said in a statement.

“We are seeing a society that is drifting further apart socially. People can feel this. Discussing yet more cuts now fuels fear and uncertainty. This plays into the hands of populists and extremists,” he added.

According to the EU's definition, people are considered at risk of poverty if their income is below 60% of the national median. In Germany, that threshold was €1,446 ($1,683) per month for a single-person household and €3,036 for a household with two adults and two children under 14.

The report said many households were having a hard time to cover everyday expenses as 6.9% of the population lacked sufficient income last year to meet regular living costs, among them higher energy bills and replacing essential household appliances.

With a poverty rate of 19.5%, nearly one in five people aged 65 and older is now affected. Among women over 75, the figure is as high as 21.3%. People living alone face a particularly high risk of poverty at 30.3%, while single parents face a risk of 28.9%.

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🔗 Anadolu Agency || DW News

What is the OP trying to achieve 😁
Let’s not use Germany to excuse local mismanagement. Germany’s "poor" still have access to running water, functional healthcare, electricity, and public transport. Nigeria is dealing with absolute poverty and an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis driven by epileptic governance l. Pointing to Europe to justify our economic challenges is a distraction, bad governance is bad governance, regardless of global trends.

and so what? Just nonsense and ingredients, I wonder what you're trying to portray here... how about Nigeria our dear country! at least in Germany they'll still boast of basic amenities, basic necessities of life which even the middle-class in Nigeria can't...etc.

Kilode, eyin eyan. E ba mi complete iyoku jare

Time has almost run out for Nigeria to reverse its current economic decline. It will likely get much worse if we don't do something drastic.

The recent breakthroughs with AI will soon hit Nigeria and Africa hard in general with job losses, as multinationals and large companies (even smaller ones) adopt automation and find other ways to handle customer care and service delivery.

Nigeria needs leaders who can stir it in a new direction and drastically reduce wasteful government spending.

Believe this news at your own risk

Meanwhile our mates Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania are gradually building their economy with little or no insecurity.

Data boys dey foam at the mouth when they see bad news. Misery loves company

their poverty there no be like our own oo. their poor people there na like average people eating three square meals for 9ja. no dull yourself 😔😕

Adultery and fornication , drinking beer wine and alcohol are amongst the major causes of poverty.









The most predominant ways of life in Germany is getting drunk and not working.






Their women sometimes even work more than their men.



Asides Volkswagen and mercedes benz what other product are made in Germany









Heaven doesn't support lazy men!

A poor person in Germany is richer than the average middle-class person here. Do your findings and quote me.after.

You wan show say nor be only Nigerians dey suffer but you dey forget say the 13m in Germany 🇩🇪 na chaiiis where Nigeria 🇳🇬 over 200 million people dey live in abject poverty.

Make d poverty there no affect my client ooo

The people termed poor in this place would have been termed a bit above average in our Nigeria here o.

These people have 24 hour electricity, access to data and can afford 3 square meals.

Saint99:
A poor person in Germany is richer than the average middle-class person here. Do your findings and quote me.after.

And the cost of living in Germany is much higher than NIgeria cost of living.

Most Nigerians tend to think that a german guy earning say 3000 euros is living the life. Cost of living and taxes go chop the money before month end.

All them goodies Europeans have, like light, water, roads, etc...they pay highly by Nigerian standards for them. If we was to bring in say the billing rate for electricity in Germany and allow our power companies charge the thing, nigerians would be broke in minutes, not even days.

That's why sometimes being a developed country does not mean that there would be no struggling...it just means that the definition of things like poverty will change.

Take America. Someone living on social security in America alone go struggle like poor Nigerian . iF THAT person were to move to Nigeria, imagine how 2000 dollars monthly go look for bodi here.

Putin has become obsessed with Germany lately

WriterNig:
13 Million People In Germany Live In Poverty As Rate Skyrockets To 16.1%

Is this story reflected in an uptick in the number of people fasting and praying to japa to Nigeria from Germany?
Abi their poverty never extreme reach to join us in drinking water from shitty boreholes for kwashiorkor potbellies of acting big men

The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.

InvertedHammer:
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It is by far better than Enugu.

500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.

But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.

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fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w

13 million? They are even so lucky.

Here in Naija just add one ZERO to the 13.

APC goons will soon start comparing Nigeria and Germany

they will be like, 13m people are poor in Germany, ours just only 160m people

I it's only USA and Australia that are super rich now... The only countries you can make money as immigrants

geoworldedu:
The people termed poor in this place would have been termed a bit above average in our Nigeria here o.

These people have 24 hour electricity, access to data and can afford 3 square meals.

They also pay the kind of rates that would enable them to afford all that, plus not all can afford three square meals. Some of them have to go to food pantries set up by charites to manage that. ANd some poor people go hungry.

A Nigerian can get food for less than a dollar a day, for breakfast and be satisfied. A poor german served the kind of breakfast a poor Nigerian go eat would be very angry.

Many of you Nigerians want 24 hours of electricty...without paying what it takes to get 24 hours of electricity. Even the services poor people get there are paid by heavy duty taxes. Here in Nigeria, 99% of the rich don't pay tax, most of the informal sector does not pay tax, and our gdp is low because it relies on ioyel rather than industries

As for that electricity, a lot of poor people struggle to keep the lights on. Some conserve energy like not using too many lights, not using the electric heater, etc.

Is that so? Ok

I will comment later