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Poverty in Germany refers to people living in relative poverty in Germany. During the last decades the number of people living in poverty has been increasing. Children are more likely to be poor than adults. There has been a strong increase in the number of poor children. In 1965 only one in 75 children lived on welfare, in 2007 one in 6 did.〔"Sozialhilfe: Kinderarmut nimmt zu". Focus. 15.11.2007〕 Poverty rates differ by states. While in 2005 in states like Bavaria only 6.6% of children and 3.9% of all citizens were impoverished, in Berlin 15.2% of the inhabitants and 30.7% of the children received welfare payments.〔("Poverty in Germany" ). ''World Socialist Website''. Retrieved 2014-13-05.〕 The German ''Kinderhilfswerk'', an organization caring for children in need, has demanded the government to do something about the poverty problem. As of 2015, poverty in Germany is at its highest since German reunification in 1990. Some 12.5 million Germans are now classified as poor.〔http://www.dw.com/en/poverty-in-germany-at-its-highest-since-reunification/a-18268757〕 ==Poverty in the postwar period== During the postwar period, a number of researchers found that (despite years of rising affluence) many West Germans continued to live in poverty. In 1972, a study by the SPES estimated that between 1 and 1.5 million people (more than 2% of the population) were living below the state’s poverty line. In 1975, a report on poverty published by a CDU politician called Heiner Geissler estimated that 5.8 million people lived below the public assistance levels. As the opening sentence of the report put it, “Poverty, a theme long since thought dead, is an oppressive reality for millions of people.” The report also estimated that workers’ and employees’ households constituted more than 40% of poor households, showing low pay to be a major cause of poverty.〔Poverty and Inequality in Common Market Countries edited by Victor George and Roger Lawson〕 A study by Frank Klanberg of SPES found that if the poverty line was redefined to include an allowance for housing costs based on officially recommended minimum standards of housing space and the average rent in socially-aided housing, then the proportion of West German households living below the minimum in 1969 would have risen from 1% to 3% and those below 150% of the minimum from 10% to 16%.〔 According to another study, 2% of households in West Germany lived in severe poverty (defined as 40% of average living standards), over 7% were in moderate poverty (half the average living standards) and 16% lived in “mild” poverty (defined as 60% of average living standards). A study carried out by the EC Poverty Programme derived a figure for 1973 of 6.6%, using a poverty line of 50% of personal disposable income.〔The Federal Republic of Germany: The End of an era edited by Eva Kolinsky〕 Nevertheless, findings by SPES and DIW suggested that low-income households were relatively better off than in most other Western countries, with the share of the bottom 10% being somewhat higher than in Britain and Sweden, and roughly twice the levels in France and the United States.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poverty in Germany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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