Press release No. 293 of 31 July 2024
Persons in employment resident in Germany, June 2024
0.0% on the previous month (seasonally adjusted)
+0.1% on the previous month (not seasonally adjusted)
+0.4% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – Roughly 46.0 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in June 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 8,000 (0.0%) compared with the previous month. A slightly larger increase was observed in May 2024, when the number of persons in employment grew by 21,000 compared with the previous month.
Without seasonal adjustment, the number of persons in employment in June 2024 rose by 55.000 (+0.1%) on May 2024. The increase was therefore somewhat smaller than the average June increase of the years 2022 and 2023 (+63.000 people).
Stable upward trend year on year
Compared with June 2023, the number of persons in employment in June 2024 was up 0.4%, or 178,000. The monthly rates of change compared with a year earlier were also +0.4% in the period from February to May 2024. Compared with the previous year, the long-term upward trend in the labour market therefore continued unabated in June 2024.
Employment figures in the 2nd quarter of 2024 up 0.1% on the previous quarter after seasonal adjustment
In the second quarter of 2024, the average number of persons in employment whose place of employment was in Germany (domestic concept) was roughly 46.1 million according to provisional calculations. After seasonal adjustment, the number of persons in employment therefore rose by 54,000, or 0.1%, on the previous quarter. Detailed results for the second quarter of 2024 will be released on 16 August 2024.
Adjusted unemployment rate at 3.4% in June 2024
According to results of the labour force survey, 1.52 million people were unemployed in June 2024. This represented an increase of 194,000, or 14.6%, compared with June 2023. The unemployment rate rose to 3.4% (June 2023: 3.0%).
Adjusted for seasonal and irregular effects, the number of unemployed in June 2024 stood at 1.50 million, which was a slight increase on May 2024 (+2,000; +0.1%). The adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.4% compared with the previous month.
Methodological notes:
The differing comparative periods must be taken into account in all press releases on short-term indicators. Short-term economic monitoring focuses on comparisons with the previous month or previous quarter. These reflect short-term economic trends. Year-on-year comparisons, by contrast, enable long-term comparisons of levels and are hardly influenced by seasonal fluctuations.
The number of persons in employment from the employment accounts differs from that of the labour force survey, which has been integrated into the microcensus. The differences are mainly due to the different conceptual approaches of the two statistical systems (national and domestic concept). Background information on the differences in the results is available in the explanatory notes (only in German) on the statistics. For information on the microcensus and the labour force survey please refer to the relevant theme page (only in German) on the website of the Federal Statistical Office.
Persons in employment and unemployed persons are counted according to the employment status concept of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Therefore, the unemployment figures shown here differ from registered unemployment as determined and published by the Federal Employment Agency in accordance with the German Social Code. In the European Statistical System, the results of the labour force surveys are used as a standard basis for calculating unemployment rates.
Recalculation of the employment time series as part of the 2024 major revision of national accounts
With today's release of the results for June 2024, the Federal Statistical Office provides time series on employment in Germany as of 1991 which were recalculated as part of the 2024 major revision of national accounts. In this revision, as is the case in every major revision of national accounts (only in German), the previous results from 1991 onwards were checked and new information was integrated into the calculations.
Throughout the whole revision period as of 1991, the 2024 major revision of national accounts has resulted in a slight increase in the quarterly levels of the persons-in-employment time series based on the domestic concept. This increase amounted to an average of roughly 22,000 (+0.1%). Based on the national concept, the persons-in-employment time series decreased by an average of 4,000 (0.0%) during the same period. The opposing revision effects were due to the recalculation of the numbers of cross-border commuters. The information previously published about the short-term development of employment in Germany has been confirmed.
Detailed results of the 2024 major revision of national accounts for employment and of the working time and labour volume accounts of the Institute for Employment Research will be published in the press release of 16 August 2024 regarding the 2nd quarter of 2024.
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 (Destatis) website. Tables containing unemployment results (only in German) from the labour force survey including the unemployment rate are also available on this page. Detailed data and long time series are available from 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). Monthly data on persons in employment and unemployed persons from the labour force survey can be found in tables 13231-0001 (overview), 13321-0002 (unemployed persons, persons in employment and economically active population) and 13231-0003 (unemployment rates).
Labour market results are also available on Dashboard Germany at www.dashboard-deutschland.de (only in German). This data portal of the Federal Statistical Office combines up-to-date indicators from official statistics producers and other data providers on the topics of the economy, finance, health and mobility. The portal also contains the interactive Economic Pulse Monitor (Pulsmesser für die Wirtschaft) tool (only in German) for real-time economic monitoring.
Special webpage on skilled labour:
A special webpage of the Federal Statistical Office combines facts and figures on the subject of skilled labour (www.destatis.de/fachkraefte) (only in German). It provides data on demography, employment, education and immigration. The information offered ranges from projections of the future size of the labour force to analyses of the labour supply and data on labour migration and the vocational training market. New information is added continually.
