Press release No. 291 of 2 August 2019
WIESBADEN – In 2018, 727,000 people received training assistance under the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) in Germany. This was a decrease of 55,000 people compared with a year earlier (-7.1%). The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that 410,000 women (56%) and 317,000 men (44%) received training assistance. The recipients included approximately 209,000 pupils and 518,000 students in 2018. The number of pupils who received training assistance fell by 7.3%, while that of students was down by 7.0% on the previous year.
