At the beginning of 2022, 24% of households in Germany had a fully automatic coffee machine. Five years earlier, in 2017, only 15% of the households had such a machine. There were dishwashers in 75% of all households in 2022. Every household had a refrigerator or fridge-freezer, every other household (49%) a freezer.
92% of the households in Germany had at least one of roughly 60 million flat-screen TVs at the beginning of 2022. Five years earlier (2017), there had been almost 53 million flat-screen TVs in 87% of households. For some consumer electronics products the equipment rates continued to decline slightly. In 2022, the proportion of households with antenna TV connection was down to 8% (2017: 15%) and of those with satellite TV connection to 44% (2017: 47%).
Notebooks, netbooks and/or tablet PCs could be found in 85% of all households at the beginning of 2022. In 2017, just 79% of the households had one or more mobile PCs. The equipment rate regarding fixed computers, however, stood at only 43% and was on the decline. In 2017, there had been fixed computers in 49% of all households. The stock of mobile PCs increased from 58 million in 2017 to 72 million in 2022. In the same period, the stock of fixed PCs fell from almost 23 million (2017) to 20 million (2022).
At the beginning of 2022, nearly every household (98%) owned at least one mobile phone, compared with 96% early in 2017. In contrast, the share of households with landline telephones decreased to 83%, down from 91% in 2017. 96% of the households had internet access in 2022, compared with 91% in 2017.
Early in 2022, 78% of households had at least one car and roughly one third (33%) owned more than one passenger car. Most of the nearly 42 million cars in households had been bought second-hand (24 million), followed by nearly 15 million new cars and two million leased passenger cars.
These figures and other results are available in the tables under Equipment with consumer durables.
