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Press release No. 460 of 4 December 2024 2025 Bundestag election: at least 59.2 million people eligible to vote
If the German Bundestag is dissolved and the election to the 21st German Bundestag is held on 23 February 2025, as anticipated, at least 59.2 million Germans in the federal territory are expected to be eligible to vote, according to an estimate of …
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Press release No. 453 of 26 November 2024 IDEV reporting system back online: statistics production is ensured
The IDEV reporting system of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) went back online on 25 November 2024 as planned. As a precautionary measure, the Federal Statistical Office took its IDEV system offline in mid-November 2024 immediately after a …
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Date: July 10, 2024 The role of official statistics in shaping the future - Opportunities from the data producer's perspective
The times when official statistics had a monopoly on statistical facts are over. Due to digitalisation, we are instead confronted with an exponentially growing volume of data. New data and new data providers are constantly emerging. This article …
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Press release No. 030 of 20 January 2023 Dr. Ruth Brand is the new President of the Federal Statistical Office
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser: “Statistics are indispensable for our democracy and for political decision-making. The data of the Federal Statistical Office are highly, and rightly, trusted because they are independent and …
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Press release No. 563 of 27 December 2022 A look back at the year: 2022 reflected in statistics
The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has published about 700 press releases in 2022, reflecting reality through a wide range of statistics. Now it's time to take a statistical look back at the year (only in german).
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Press release No. N 072 of 20 December 2022 Christmas facts
Whether it' a Norway spruce or Nordmann fir – for many people Christmas is not complete without a real Christmas tree. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that Christmas trees were grown on an area of 20,100 hectares outside the forests …
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Date: December 19, 2022 An informational infrastructure has emerged in Germany - the Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office
The information infrastructure in Germany has progressed significantly since the end of the 1990s although the Covid-19 crisis has shown recently that it still has considerable deficits. The insight that individual data have a value and the demand …
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Press release No. 532 of 15 December 2022 Ruth Brand to become President of the Federal Statistical Office
The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) will get a new head of office on 1 January 2023: the Federal President today appointed Dr. Ruth Brand as successor to Dr. Georg Thiel, the current President of the Federal Statistical Office, who will retire …
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Press release No. 528 of 12 December 2022 Mobility Compass provides orientation when striving for climate neutral cities
By amending the Climate Change Act, the Federal Government has set itself the goal of reducing CO2 emissions in traffic by 61 million tonnes by 2030. To achieve the goal, German cities and towns have to review their strategies of traffic and mobility …
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Press release No. 522 of 8 December 2022 Economic Pulse Monitor permits real-time economic monitoring
Economic sentiment in Germany continues to be pessimistic despite a slight upturn. Current data do however not indicate a deep recession yet. This is the assessment of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) given during the presentation of the …
