Share of older people in NRW on basic pension rises to 5.4%

Statistics from IT.NRW, the state statistics office of North Rhine-Westphalia, show that at the end of 2025, 5.4% of people at or above retirement age in the state received Grundsicherung im Alter, a means-tested basic pension for older people with too little income. That is up from 5.3% a year earlier and 1.1 percentage points above the national rate of 4.3%. Düsseldorf and Köln had the highest shares, at 10.5% each.

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