Press release No. 455 of 16 November 2020
Persons employed in manufacturing, September 2020
-3.0% on the same month a year earlier
+0.2% on the previous month
WIESBADEN – At the end of September 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 172,000 persons or 3.0% less than in September 2019.
The number of hours worked in September 2020 decreased 3.9% from a year earlier, reaching 683 million – here it has to be considered, that there was one working day (Thuringia two working days) more than in September 2019.
The earnings amounted to 22.5 billion euros; that was 4.3% less than in September 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
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.
