Middle class: Third belongs to the lower class – Germany’s middle is shrinking

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Do you belong to the middle class? Of course you will answer. After all, that’s what 82 percent of Germans say about themselves when asked. According to a survey from 2019, 15.3 percent feel they belong to the working class, two percent to the lower class and only 0.5 percent to the upper class.

But the reality is very different.