Press release No. 191 of 15 April 2021
Persons employed in manufacturing, February 2021
-2.9% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – At the end of February 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 February 2020.
The number of hours worked in February 2021 decreased 3.1% from a year earlier, reaching 681 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 22.4 billion euros; that was 3.1% less than in February 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.
