Press release No. 406 of 15 October 2020
Persons employed in manufacturing, August 2020
-3.1% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – At the end of August 2020, 5.5 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 179,000 persons or 3.1% less than in August 2019.
The number of hours worked in August 2020 decreased 10.7% from a year earlier, reaching 601 million – here it has to be considered, that there was one working day less than in August 2019.
The earnings amounted to 22.2 billion euros; that was 5.7% less than in August 2019.
Results are available on the "Corona statistics" webpage of the Federal Statistical Office together with other indicators which can be used to assess the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
German EU Council Presidency
As of 1 July, the Federal Statistical Office will organise the meetings of the Council Working Party on Statistics to be held during Germany’s EU Council Presidency under the chairmanship of its President Dr. Georg Thiel. Information on our activities during the Presidency of the Council of the EU is provided at destatis.de/eu2020.
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.
