Press release No. 126 of 16 March 2021
Persons employed in manufacturing, January 2021
-2.9% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – At the end of January 2021, 5.4 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 161,000 persons or 2.9% less than in January 2020.
The number of hours worked in January 2021 decreased 10.4% from a year earlier, reaching 650 million – here it has to be considered, that there were two working days less than in January 2020.
The earnings amounted to 23.4 billion euros; that was 2.2% less than in January 2020.
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.
