Every fifth person in Germany has too little money for a week’s vacation — Website

More than every fifth person in Germany (22.4 percent) has too little money to be able to afford a one-week holiday once a year. This emerges from data that the chairman of the left-wing faction in the German Bundestag, Dietmar Bartsch, has requested from the European statistics agency Eurostat. Especially for people with children, the statistical risk of not being able to afford a week’s vacation increases significantly. Four out of ten single parents (42.2 percent) do not have enough money for this. For couples, the risk of poverty increases with the number of children. 18.1 percent of couples with one child cannot afford a seven-day holiday. With three children and more, the rate rises to 29.4 percent.

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