Unemployment

Topics Labour market

1.68 mn unemployed

3.9 % unemployment rate

643,000 notified vacancies

Press releases

29 May 2026 Employment in April 2026 virtually unchanged from the previous month after seasonal adjustment

Roughly 45.61 million persons resident in Germany (national concept) were in employment in April 2026. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment therefore remained virtually unchanged (-6,000; 0.0%) compared with the previous month. In the period from May 2025 to March 2026, employment decreased by an average of 17,000 people month on month.

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Persons in employment with place of residence in Germany

30 April 2026 Employment in March 2026 down on the previous month after seasonal adjustment

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31 March 2026 Decline in employment continues in February 2026

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27 February 2026 Employment continued to decline in January 2026

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30 January 2026 Employment down slightly in December 2025

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7 January 2026 Employment in November 2025 virtually unchanged from October

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Further Press Releases

Current news

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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Tables

Unemployed (ILO concept)

Registered unemployed

Monthly data (original values)

Monthly data (seasonally adjusted)

Annual data

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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Unemployment rates, EU

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Employment and unemployment

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Unemployment persons according to ILO concept and registered unemployed persons

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)

27 August 2020 - A proof of concepts (PoC) has shown the high potential of geo-referenced data.

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Online job index

5 July 2022 - 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