Press release No. 464 of 2 November 2022
Persons in employment resident in Germany, September 2022
0.0% on the previous month (seasonally adjusted)
+0.5% on the previous month (not seasonally adjusted)
+0.9% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – Roughly 45.6 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in September 2022. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment decreased slightly by 4,000 people (0.0%) from the previous month, following an increase of 12,000 in August and a decrease of 9,000 in July. As a result, the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment has hardly changed in the last four months.
Adjusted unemployment rate unchanged at 3.0% in September 2022
According to calculations based on the labour force survey, 1.30 million people were unemployed in September 2022. That was a decrease of 147,000, or 10.2%, compared with September 2021. The unemployment rate was 2.9% (September 2021: 3.3%).
Adjusted for seasonal and irregular effects for instance due to weather conditions or strike, the number of unemployed stood at 1.31 million, on a par with the level recorded in August 2022. The adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.0% in September 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).
