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Press release No. 189 of 28 May 2025 Employment unchanged in April 2025 after seasonal adjustment
Roughly 45.8 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in April 2025. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment therefore remained …
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Press release No. 156 of 30 April 2025 Little movement in employment figures in March 2025
Roughly 45.7 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in March 2025. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment was almost unchanged …
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Date: May 21, 2025 Data on online job advertisements in ESSnet WIN
The demand for readily available data on short-term developments in the labour market is growing. The Federal Statistical Office has been analysing the potential of online job advertisements in this regard for several years. Various feasibility …
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Press release No. 120 of 28 March 2025 Employment down slightly in February 2025
Roughly 45.6 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in February 2025. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment decreased slightly by …
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Press release No. 077 of 28 February 2025 Employment down slightly in January 2025
Roughly 45.6 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in January 2025. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment fell slightly by 9,000 …
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Press release No. 041 of 31 January 2025 Employment stagnates in December 2024
Roughly 46.0 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in December 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose only marginally by …
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Press release No. 002 of 3 January 2025 Employment in November 2024 slightly up on the previous month
Roughly 46.1 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in November 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 24,000 …
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Press release No. 001 of 2 January 2025 Number of persons in employment reaches new high in 2024
...On an annual average, there were roughly 46.1 million persons in employment in 2024 whose place of employment was in Germany. This was the highest number of persons in employment since German unification in 1990. According to a first estimate of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the average number of persons in employment in 2024 rose by 72,000 (+0.2%) on the previous year. ...
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Press release No. 451 of 29 November 2024 Employment almost unchanged in October 2024
Roughly 46.1 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in October 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment remained virtually …
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Press release No. 407 of 30 October 2024 Employment down slightly in September 2024
Roughly 46.0 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in September 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment fell slightly by 18,000 …
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Press release No. 371 of 27 September 2024 Employment down slightly in August 2024
Roughly 45.9 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in August 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment declined slightly by …
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Press release No. 331 of 30 August 2024 Employment up slightly in July 2024
Roughly 46.0 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in July 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 5,000 …
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Press release No. 293 of 31 July 2024 Employment slightly up in June 2024
Roughly 46.0 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in June 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 8,000 …
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Press release No. 254 of 28 June 2024 Employment in May 2024: slight upward trend continues
Roughly 45.9 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in May 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment was up by 20,000 (0.0%) …
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Press release No. 217 of 4 June 2024 Number of persons in employment continued to increase in April 2024
Roughly 45.8 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in April 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose by 25,000 (+0.1%) on …
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Press release No. 171 of 30 April 2024 Rate of increase in employment continued to slow in March 2024
Roughly 45.7 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in March 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 8,000 …
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Press release No. 127 of 28 March 2024 Employment in February 2024: slight upward trend continues
Roughly 45.7 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in February 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 14,000 …
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Press release No. 075 of 29 February 2024 Employment continues to increase in January 2024
Roughly 45.7 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in January 2024. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose by 57,000 (+0.1%) on …
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Press release No. 040 of 31 January 2024 Slight increase in employment in December 2023
Roughly 46.0 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in December 2023. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 23,000 …
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Press release No. 002 of 3 January 2024 Employment rises again slightly in November 2023
Roughly 46.1 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in November 2023. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 19,000 …
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Press release No. 189 of 16 May 2023 1st quarter of 2023: positive development of employment in Germany continues
Roughly 45.6 million people were in employment in Germany in the first quarter of 2023.According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose by 150,000 (+0.3%) …
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Press release No. 321 of 29 July 2022 June 2022: continued increase in employment in Germany
Roughly 45.4 million people (original value) resident in Germany (national concept) were in employment in June 2022 according to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Compared with the previous month, the number of …
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Press release No. 001 of 2 January 2024 CORRECTION: Employment reaches a new high in 2023
...CORRECTION: On an annual average, there were roughly 45.9 million persons in employment in 2023 whose place of employment was in Germany. This was the highest level since German unification in 1990. According to a first estimate of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the average number of persons in employment in 2023 rose by 333,000 (+0.7%) on the previous year. ...
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Press release No. 464 of 2 November 2022 September 2022: employment in Germany at a record high
Roughly 45.6 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in September 2022. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment decreased slightly by …
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Press release No. 424 of 2 November 2023 Employment at a new high in September 2023
Roughly 46.0 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in September 2023. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 1,000 …
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Press release No. 459 of 30 November 2023 Employment up slightly in October 2023
Roughly 46.1 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in October 2023. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 14,000 …
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Press release No. 484 of 17 November 2022 3rd quarter of 2022: employment in Germany at record high
...The former record high, which also amounted to 45.6 million persons in employment with place of employment in Germany, had been reached in the fourth quarter of 2019. It was exceeded by 82,000 people, or 0.2%, in the third quarter of 2022. Detailed data and long time series on persons in employment for Germany are available in the GENESIS-Online database in the tables on national accounts of the Federation (81000-0011 and 81000-0016) and on the labour market (13321)....
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Press release No. 063 of 16 February 2023 4th quarter of 2022: employment in Germany at a new record high
Roughly 45.9 million people were in employment in Germany in the fourth quarter of 2022. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose by 107,000 …
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Press release No. 391 of 29 September 2023 Employment up slightly in August 2023
Roughly 45.8 million persons resident in Germany were in employment in August 2023. According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose by 34,000 (+0.1%) on …
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Press release No. N003 of 19 January 2023 Employment of older people in Germany and the EU markedly up in the last 10 years
...To cope with the skilled labour shortage, stronger labour force participation of older people is discussed, among other things. More and more older people are in employment in Germany and the European Union (EU). The employment rate of the 55 to 64 year olds in Germany rose markedly within ten years from 62% in 2012 to just under 72% in 2021. In the same period, the employment rate of the 55 to 64 year olds in the EU was up from 47% to 60%. ...
