[throwaway936482]

How homelessness is measured varies massively between countries. So Britain has an estimated 4751 people sleeping rough, but 307,000 people who are homeless, i.e. living in temporary accomodation, sofa surfing etc. The USA has an estimated 190,000 people sleeping rough (in cars, tents, on the streets) but only counts a total of 540,000 people as homeless. I don't know how the American figures are counted but the German ones are probably estimated in a similar way to the British ones because we live standardised statistics in the EU.

[danielh]

Surprisingly, there are no official statistics on homelessness in Germany. Any numbers you see are not from the federal government, but probably from BAGW, a charitable organization supporting the homeless.

Their estimate for 2016 is 860,000 homeless people (including approximately 440,000 homeless refugees). The number of unsheltered homeless people was estimated to be 52,000. [1]

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

[throwaway936482]

That sounds about right for street homeless for a European nation. The UK figure in reality is probably about that as the way street homelessness is measured in the UK is set up to undercount.