At the end of January, the Bertelsmann Foundation published its factsheet on child and youth poverty in Germany. According to this report, 2.88 million children under the age of 18 and 1.55 million young adults under the age of 25 were considered poor or "at risk of poverty" in 2021. This means that more than one in five children and one in four young adults are affected by poverty. Young adults have the highest risk of poverty of all age groups.