| Year | Total | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1: The Federal Employment Agency has in January 2024 revised the employment statistics. For more information please refer to: "Beschäftigungsstatistik - partielle Revision 2023" (only in German) by the Federal Employment Agency. 2: The way foreigners are counted has changed compared to previous publications. As of 2008 stateless persons and persons with no response are now counted as foreigners. Source: Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency - provisional result. | |||
| Total | |||
| 1999 | 27,418,361 | 15,439,643 | 11,978,718 |
| 2000 | 27,841,773 | 15,608,494 | 12,233,279 |
| 2001 | 27,798,094 | 15,496,742 | 12,301,352 |
| 2002 | 27,659,831 | 15,288,011 | 12,371,820 |
| 2003 | 26,949,434 | 14,833,651 | 12,115,783 |
| 2004 | 26,547,978 | 14,617,638 | 11,930,340 |
| 2005 | 26,299,560 | 14,404,397 | 11,895,163 |
| 2006 | 26,533,905 | 14,563,121 | 11,970,784 |
| 2007 | 27,050,451 | 14,915,997 | 12,134,454 |
| 2008 | 27,695,398 | 15,225,839 | 12,469,559 |
| 2009 | 27,603,281 | 14,987,984 | 12,615,297 |
| 2010 | 27,966,601 | 15,149,301 | 12,817,300 |
| 2011 | 28,643,583 | 15,531,430 | 13,112,153 |
| 2012 | 29,280,034 | 15,838,217 | 13,441,817 |
| 2013 | 29,615,680 | 15,965,766 | 13,649,914 |
| 2014 | 30,174,505 | 16,240,821 | 13,933,684 |
| 2015 | 30,771,297 | 16,504,172 | 14,267,125 |
| 2016 | 31,443,318 | 16,864,227 | 14,579,091 |
| 2017 | 32,164,973 | 17,273,293 | 14,891,680 |
| 2018 | 32,870,228 | 17,696,536 | 15,173,692 |
| 2019 | 33,407,262 | 17,988,091 | 15,419,171 |
| 2020 | 33,322,952 | 17,894,118 | 15,428,834 |
| 2021 | 33,802,173 | 18,148,598 | 15,653,575 |
| 2022 | 34,445,087 | 18,478,208 | 15,966,879 |
| 2023 | 34,709,056 | 18,624,600 | 16,084,456 |
| Including foreigners2 | |||
| 1999 | 1,838,739 | 1,222,093 | 616,646 |
| 2000 | 1,899,058 | 1,250,205 | 648,853 |
| 2001 | 1,949,462 | 1,269,113 | 680,349 |
| 2002 | 1,929,543 | 1,239,776 | 689,767 |
| 2003 | 1,812,806 | 1,157,462 | 655,344 |
| 2004 | 1,739,097 | 1,109,124 | 629,973 |
| 2005 | 1,711,997 | 1,087,851 | 624,146 |
| 2006 | 1,738,958 | 1,104,083 | 634,875 |
| 2007 | 1,788,184 | 1,137,585 | 650,599 |
| 2008 | 1,869,563 | 1,183,303 | 686,260 |
| 2009 | 1,845,124 | 1,146,904 | 698,220 |
| 2010 | 1,894,137 | 1,172,057 | 722,080 |
| 2011 | 2,035,052 | 1,259,255 | 775,797 |
| 2012 | 2,209,491 | 1,363,619 | 845,872 |
| 2013 | 2,356,777 | 1,451,812 | 904,965 |
| 2014 | 2,579,039 | 1,595,042 | 983,997 |
| 2015 | 2,845,212 | 1,762,694 | 1,082,518 |
| 2016 | 3,150,202 | 1,961,269 | 1,188,933 |
| 2017 | 3,486,900 | 2,190,177 | 1,296,723 |
| 2018 | 3,866,198 | 2,453,157 | 1,413,041 |
| 2019 | 4,172,295 | 2,651,714 | 1,520,581 |
| 2020 | 4,254,388 | 2,688,184 | 1,566,204 |
| 2021 | 4,546,346 | 2,868,789 | 1,677,557 |
| 2022 | 4,984,128 | 3,110,887 | 1,873,241 |
| 2023 | 5,325,540 | 3,302,471 | 2,023,069 |
As at 31 January 2024