Press release No. 135 of 17 April 2020
WIESBADEN – At the end of February 2020, 5.6 million people worked in local units of manufacturing with 50 or more persons employed in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of provisional results, that was about 59,000 persons or 1.0% less than in February 2019.
The number of hours worked in February 2020 decreased 2.6% from a year earlier, reaching 704 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 23.1 billion euros; that was 0.2% less than in February 2019.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Persons employed and turnover of local units in manufacturing 42111-0002 and 42111-0004 in the GENESIS-Online database.
