18-24 year olds manage to set aside 281 euros each month, or 5 euros more than the national average.

And it's not just because of the closure of bars and restaurants or the difficulty of traveling.

With the pandemic, 60% of them are now aware of the value of saving.

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In 2020, the first year of Covid-19, the French broke all records in terms of savings.

In total, they have deposited more than 26 billion euros on their A passbooks, twice more than in 2019. Each month, they save 276 euros.

And as surprising as it may seem, the 18-24 players manage to set aside 281 euros.

This is more than the national average, as indicated by a survey conducted by the broker MeilleurPlacement.com with OpinionWay and revealed by Europe 1. A significant delta for people often still in education or with low salaries.

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Some even manage to save large amounts.

This is the case, for example, of Roch-Luther, a 23-year-old law student.

Each month, he manages to set aside 600 euros of the 1,500 of his work-study salary.

The young man was however naturally rather spendthrift before the crisis.

"With the coronavirus, my expenses have fallen," he explains, referring to the inability to go on a trip or go to the movies and bars.

"No one is immune"

"So it is much easier to put money aside," says the student.

But that's not all.

There is also an awareness.

"I realized that it was good to save because you never know how things can be, we have seen it with the coronavirus. Nobody is immune from anything."

Like Roch-Luther, three in five young people have realized the value of saving.

They are 67% to have had the click in the 25-34 years.

Again, this is more than the national average.

And according to Yannick Hamon, spokesperson for MeilleurPlacement.com, the reason is quite simple.

"We save because, generally, we have apprehensions about the future," says the specialist.

According to him, there are two themes that are sources of fear for young people.

Retirement, first.

"Young people, consciously or unconsciously, live with this feeling of having to save to pay for their retirement."

And then there is the place of work in society, strongly challenged by the Covid-19 crisis.

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A third of seniors spares nothing at all

Faced with this increasingly far-sighted youth, there is a phenomenon that should not be overlooked.

Those who would like to but cannot.

According to MeilleurPlacement.com and OpinionWay, 27% of French people say they cannot save anything.

Among the most affected are the elderly.

A third of them cannot save money. 

For the French who manage to save, it is the booklets (livret A and LDDS) that come out big winners.

70% of French people say they own one.

Booklets that earn little but which constitute easily available precautionary savings, and which appeal to young and old alike.