Press release No. 067 of 16 February 2021
Persons employed in manufacturing, December 2020
-2.7% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – At the end of December 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 154,000 persons or 2.7% less than in December 2019.
The number of hours worked in December 2020 decreased 0.5% from a year earlier, reaching 592 million – here it has to be considered, that there were two working days more than in December 2019.
The earnings amounted to 24.0 billion euros; that was 0.6% less than in December 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.
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.
