Press release No. 077 of 1 March 2023
Persons in employment resident in Germany, January 2023
+0.2% on the previous month (seasonally adjusted)
-0.5% on the previous month (not seasonally adjusted)
+1.0% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – Roughly 45.5 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in January 2023. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose markedly by 72,000 (+0.2%) compared with the previous month. In December 2022, the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment increased by 28,000 (+0.1%) month on month.
Without seasonal adjustment, the number of persons in employment decreased in January 2023 compared with December 2022 (-244,000 or -0.5%), which is normal for that time of the year. The decline, however, was less pronounced than compared with the January average of the three pre-crisis years from 2017 to 2019 (-311,000 people).
Adjusted unemployment rate at 3.0% in January 2023
According to results of the labour force survey, 1.32 million people were unemployed in January 2023. That was a decrease of 107,000, or 7.5%, compared with January 2022. The unemployment rate was 3.0% (January 2022: 3.3%).
Adjusted for seasonal and irregular effects, the number of unemployed also stood at 1.32 million, which was a slight decline on December 2022 (-9,900 people). The adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.0% in January 2023.
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 (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).
