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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - Every fifth minor in Brandenburg was considered to be at risk of poverty in 2019.
In the group of 18 to under 25-year-olds, it was even every fourth Brandenburg citizen, as the Ministry of Social Affairs in Potsdam announced in response to a request from the AfD parliamentary group.
According to EU standards, those who have less than 60 percent of the median net income are at risk of poverty.
According to the statistics office, that was 1030 euros a month in Brandenburg for a one-person household in the reporting year.
According to the information, 15.2 percent of all Brandenburgers were at risk of poverty in the reporting year.
In 2010 the rate was slightly higher at 16.3 percent.
With increasing age, fewer and fewer people are considered to be poor.
In the age group of 25 to under 50-year-olds, the rate in 2019 was 14.6 percent, in the group 65 and over it was 12.5 percent.
The risk of poverty for men was 15.2 percent, for women it was almost the same at 15.3 percent.
Contrary to the general decline in the poverty rate, it increased significantly for single parents with children from 40.9 percent to 45.2 percent.
Even for the household size of two adults with three or more children, it rose from 26.9 in 2010 to 32.7 percent in 2019.
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Among the unemployed, the risk of poverty rate increased from 64.1 percent to 70.4 percent in the same period.
Retirees and retirees were also at greater risk of poverty.
In this group, the rates rose from 12.3 to 14.4 percent in the reporting period.
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