Press release No. 245 of 14 July 2017
WIESBADEN – Roughly 242,200 people were employed as academic or artistic staff in primary employment at German institutions of higher education or university clinics at the end of 2016. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 1.2% on 2015. Compared with the previous year, the number of academic or artistic staff in secondary employment declined by 2.4% to 142,600.