Press release No. 385 of 16 August 2021
Persons employed in manufacturing, June 2021
-1.4% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – At the end of June 2021, 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 78,000 persons or 1.4% less than in June 2020.
The number of hours worked in June 2021 increased 10.1% from a year earlier, reaching 686 million – here it has to be considered, that there was one working day more than in June 2020.
The earnings amounted to 26.7 billion euros; that was 8.9% more than in June 2020.
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.
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.
