Press release No. 214 of 15 June 2020
WIESBADEN – At the end of April 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 105,000 persons or 1.8% less than in April 2019.
The number of hours worked in April 2020 decreased 16.9% from a year earlier, reaching 590 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 23.3 billion euros; that was 12.3% less than in April 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.
