Unemployment

Topics Labour market

1.84 mn unemployed

4.1 % unemployment rate

623,000 notified vacancies

Press releases

30 October 2025 Employment down slightly in September 2025 after seasonal adjustment

Roughly 45.9 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in September 2025 (national concept). According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment therefore fell slightly (-21,000; 0.0%) compared with the previous month. This was the fifth consecutive decrease, with month-on-month employment also declining by an average of 15,000 persons each month in the period from May to August 2025.

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Persons in employment with place of residence in Germany

30 September 2025 Employment almost unchanged in August 2025

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29 August 2025 Employment remains unchanged in July 2025

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31 July 2025 Employment almost unchanged in June 2025

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1 July 2025 Employment continued to stagnate in May 2025

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28 May 2025 Employment unchanged in April 2025 after seasonal adjustment

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Youth unemployment in Germany is the lowest in the EU

In 2014, roughly 330,000 young people aged 15 to 24 years were unemployed in Germany, according to results of the labour force survey.

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Unemployed (ILO concept)

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Database

GENESIS-Online

More data are available from the GENESIS-Online database on the themes:

Unemployment statistics based on the ILO concept
Labour market statistics of the Federal Employment Agency

The database content will continuously be extended, and links will be provided here.

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Experimental statistics

In the "EXSTAT – Experimental statistics section" we regularly publish new and innovative project results of the Federal Statistical Office. These are obtained by using new data sources and methods. Both the degree of maturity and quality of the results differ from those of official statistics, especially regarding harmonisation, coverage and methodology. Nonetheless these results of the statistical offices of the Federation and the Länder offer new and interesting ways of looking at various statistical topics.

Selected articles from the EXSTAT series

Geo-referenced rates of benefits provided under the Social Code, Book II (SGB II)

A proof of concepts (PoC) has shown the high potential of geo-referenced data.

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Online job index

The Online job index uses job advertisements published on the internet to monitor how the demand for labour develops in online job markets.

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Experimental statistics