Press release No. 023 of 17 January 2022
Persons employed in manufacturing, November 2021
-0.3% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – At the end of November 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 16,700 persons or 0.3% less than in November 2020.
The number of hours worked in November 2021 increased 0.5% from a year earlier, reaching 704 million – here it has to be considered, that there was one working day more than in November 2019 in eleven Länder.
The earnings amounted to 30.1 billion euros; that was 1.3% more than in November 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.
