Press August 2022: No employment growth for the first time in 18 months

Month-on-month employment nearly unchanged and 0.2% below the record high of November 2019

Press release No. 414 of 30 September 2022

Persons in employment resident in Germany, August 2022
0.0% on the previous month (seasonally adjusted)
0.0% on the previous month (not seasonally adjusted)
+1.1% on the same month a year earlier

WIESBADEN – Roughly 45.4 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in August 2022. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment was slightly down by 6,000, or 0.0%, compared with the previous month, following a monthly increase of 34,000 to finally 20,000 people in the months from April to July 2022. Thus the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment did not increase further for the first time in one and a half years.

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Adjusted unemployment rate remained at 3.0% in August 2022

According to calculations based on the labour force survey, 1.32 million people were unemployed in August 2022. That was a decrease of 125,000, or 8.6%, compared with August 2021. The unemployment rate was 3.0% (August 2021: 3.4%).

Adjusted for seasonal and irregular effects for instance due to weather conditions or strike, the number of unemployed stood at 1.30 million, remaining on the level of July 2022. The adjusted unemployment rate was 3.0% in August 2022.

Methodological notes:

For further information please refer to the German version of the press release.

More information:

A table containing monthly results on the number of persons in employment as from 2017 (unadjusted values and seasonally adjusted values) from the employment accounts is shown on the employment page of the Federal Statistical Office’s website. Tables containing unemployment results from the labour force survey including the unemployment rate are available on the unemployment page. Detailed data and long time series are provided in the GENESIS-Online database. Data on persons in employment from the employment accounts are available in tables 13321-0001 (months), 13321-0002(quarters) and 81000-0011 (years). Data on persons in employment and unemployed persons from the labour force survey can be found in tables 13231-0001 to 13231-0003 (months).

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