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Date: December 6, 2022 Satellite-based early estimate of short-term economic development

...Further new digital data will be developed to improve such estimates and provide GDP flash estimates even earlier (from flash estimate to nowcast). The results of the first project phase were published in of the WISTA scientific journal under the title "Moving from GDG flash estimates to GDP nowcasts: first results of a feasibility study to further accelerate early GDP estimation". ...

Date: March 26, 2021 German regions within EU ranking

This table covers information on gross domestic product per capita in german EU-Regions

Press release No. 493 of 25 November 2022 Gross domestic product: detailed economic performance results for the 3^rd quarter of 2022

...The GDP growth rates of most other EU Member States are higher than in Germany in a year-on-year comparison. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, the quarter preceding the Covid-19 pandemic, German GDP exceeded its pre-crisis level (+0.3%) for the first time in the third quarter of 2022. ...

Press release No. 457 of 28 October 2022 Gross domestic product in the 3^rd quarter of 2022 up 0.3% on the previous quarter

...The GDP is also available on the Corona statistics webpage (www.destatis.de/corona) and in the Dashboard Germany (www.dashboard-deutschland.de), together with other indicators which can be used to assess the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

Date: February 17, 2020 Private consumption in Germany

The article focuses on private consumption expenditure. It examines its contribution to the short-term economic development in 2019 and the different concepts and breakdowns. Additionally, the article explains the calculation of household purchases …

Press release No. 357 of 25 August 2022 Gross domestic product: detailed economic performance results for the 2^nd quarter of 2022

...The GDP growth rates of most other EU Member States were higher than in Germany in a year-on-year comparison. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, the quarter preceding the Covid-19 pandemic, German GDP was back to its pre-crisis level (0.0%) for the first time in the second quarter of 2022. ...

Press release No. 174 of 8 April 2021 Marked long-term increase in gross wages and salaries

Based on national accounting results, gross wages and salaries per employee in Germany fell by 0.1% in nominal terms (not price adjusted) in 2020 compared with 2019. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the development of earnings …

Press release No. 215 of 25 May 2022 Gross domestic product: detailed results on the economic performance in the 1^st quarter of 2022

...The GDP growth rates of most other EU Member States are higher than in Germany in a year-on-year comparison. GDP in Spain was still markedly lower (-3.4%) in the first quarter of 2022 than in the fourth quarter of 2019, the quarter before the Covid-19 crisis began. ...

Press release No. 322 of 29 July 2022 Gross domestic product stagnant in 2^nd quarter of 2022

...The GDP is also available on the Corona statistics webpage (www.destatis.de/corona) and in the Dashboard Germany (www.dashboard-deutschland.de), together with other indicators which can be used to assess the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

Date: July 2, 2019 Major Revision of National Accounts 2019

In 2019, a major revision of the National Accounts took place in Germany, as in most member states of the European Union.

Date: November 20, 2020 Economic growth in the EU

...Gross domestic product (GDP)...

Press release No. 184 of 29 April 2022 Gross domestic product in the 1^st quarter of 2022 up 0.2% on the previous quarter

...The GDP is also available on the Corona statistics webpage (www.destatis.de/corona) and in the Dashboard Germany (www.dashboard-deutschland.de), together with other indicators which can be used to assess the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

Press release No. 117 of 17 March 2022 Approximately 334 billion euros for education, science and research in 2020

...According to provisional calculations, public budgets and the private sector spent a total of 334.1 billion euros on education, science and research in Germany in 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was an increase of 4.3 billion euros, or 1.3%, compared with the previous year. In 2020, the relevant expenditure accounted for 9.9% of the gross domestic product (GDP), following 9.5% in the preceding year. ...

Date: October 12, 2021 Sustainable Development in Germany - Indicator Report 2021

The refinement made in the German Sustainability Strategy 2021 has been the most extensive one since the strategy was realigned after the United Nations adopted the Agenda 2030. A number of new indicators were incorporated, some indicators were …

Press release No. 153 of 7 April 2022 Health expenditure exceeded 440 billion euros in 2020

...Both increases were accompanied by a decline in nominal GDP (2009: -4.0%; 2020: -3.0%)....

Date: March 23, 2019 Focus on Europe

...Germany is the leading export nation in the EU, followed by the Netherlands and France. Public finance: Which countries have the highest level of general government gross debt? According to the European Stability and Growth Pact, the general government gross debt of EU Member States is expected to remain below 60 % of GDP. ...

Press release No. 074 of 25 February 2022 Gross domestic product: detailed results on the economic performance in the 4^th quarter of 2021

...The GDP growth rates of nearly all EU Member States and the United States were higher than in Germany also in a year-on-year comparison. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, the quarter before the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic recovery differed more at the international level. ...

Press release No. 020 of 14 January 2022 Gross domestic product up 2.7% in 2021

...German exports of goods and services were up a price-adjusted 9.4% on 2020. Imports increased by a price-adjusted 8.6% in the same period. In 2021, Germany’s trade with foreign countries was thus only slightly below the level of 2019. Labour market robust under still difficult circumstances On an annual average in 2021, the economic performance was achieved by 44.9 million persons in employment whose place of employment was in Germany. ...

Date: April 6, 2022 ESA 2010 methods and sources for the German GNI and its components - Edition 2021 (nur in englischer Version verfügbar)

The present document contains the detailed description of the methods and sources used for the compilation of the gross domestic product and the gross national income of the Federal Republic of Germany in compliance with the European System of …

Press release No. N014 of 17 March 2022 On the way out of the Covid crisis: comparison between German and European economies

...“This is shown by the pre-crisis comparison in a European context, especially regarding household final consumption expenditure and gross value added in manufacturing, but also employment.” The GDP fell farther below the pre-crisis level than in Germany (-1.1%) only in Spain (-4.0%), the Czech Republic (-1.9%), Portugal (-1.4%) and Slovakia (-1.2%). The EU countries with the largest economic growth when compared with the pre-crisis level were Ireland (+15.3%), Estonia (+7.2%) and Slovenia (+6.6%), according to the European statistical office Eurostat. ...