TRUE OR FAKE. Are there twice as many poor pensioners in Germany as in France?

Germany is a neighbor often taken as an example by the defenders of pension reform in France. The legal retirement age is set at 65, and will gradually rise to 67 at the end of the decade. Manuel Bompard, LFI deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, rejects this model because “the rate of poor retirees is twice as high as in France”. What about?

What do the Eurostat figures say?

Franceinfo radio conducted the survey based on figures from Eurostat, which calculates the poverty rate of pensioners in Europe, that is to say people who earn less than 60% of the median income of their country. According to this study, this is the case for 19.4% of people aged 65 and over in Germany, or 3.3 million people. They are 10.9% of French people in this situation, or 1.5 million people. There are therefore twice as many poor pensioners in Germany as in France.