List of the German federal states by at-risk-of-poverty rate

The following list sorts the federal states of Germany according to their at- risk-of-poverty rate in 2016. According to the EU- wide definition, all persons are considered to be at risk of poverty if their income after social transfers is less than 60% of the median equivalent income . In Germany, this income limit is 969 euros for a one-person household and 2,035 euros for a household with 2 adults and 2 children under 14 years of age. All figures were determined by the Federal Statistical Office .

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The at-risk-of-poverty rate of the federal states is given relative to the federal median and relative to the state median, whereby the state median depends on the income situation in the respective federal state and is highest in Baden-Württemberg (€ 1,055 for a one-person household) and lowest in Saxony-Anhalt (€ 840) .

rank	state	At-risk-of-poverty rate (federal median)	At-risk-of-poverty rate (national median)
1	Bremen	22.6%	18.2%
2	Saxony-Anhalt	21.4%	14.0%
3	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	20.4%	13.5%
4th	Berlin	19.4%	16.6%
	New countries including Berlin	18.4%	13.5%
5	North Rhine-Westphalia	17.8%	16.7%
6th	Saxony	17.7%	12.4%
7th	Saarland	17.2%	16.6%
8th	Thuringia	17.2%	12.0%
9	Lower Saxony	16.7%	16.0%
10	Brandenburg	15.6%	13.4%
11	Rhineland-Palatinate	15.5%	16.6%
12	Hesse	15.1%	16.5%
13	Schleswig-Holstein	15.1%	16.2%
	Former federal territory (excluding Berlin )	15.0%	16.2%
14th	Hamburg	14.9%	18.3%
15th	Bavaria	12.1%	14.9%
16	Baden-Württemberg	11.9%	15.4%
	Germany	15.7%	15.7%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistical Yearbook 2018: Income, Consumption, Living Conditions. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .