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Date: June 12, 2025 Producer prices of agricultural products in April 2025: +3.2% on April 2024

According to provisional calculations, the index of producer prices of agricultural products (excluding turnover tax) increased by 2.3% between March and April 2025 to stand at 146.7 (2020 = 100). That was a year-on-year increase of 3.2%. In March …

Date: June 12, 2025 Purchase prices of the means of agricultural production in April 2025: +0.8% on April 2024

On the cost side of agriculture, the index of purchase prices of the means of agricultural production (excluding turnover tax) increased by 0.2% from January to April 2025. Standing at 130.8 (2020 = 100), it was 0.8% above the level of a year …

Date: June 12, 2025 Producer prices of logging products in April 2025: +6.5% on April 2024

The index of producer prices of logging products from state forests (excluding turnover tax) stood at 112.6 (2015 = 100) in April 2025. It was 0.2% lower than in the previous month and 6.5% higher than in the same month of the previous year.

Date: December 2, 2024 3.5 million Legal Units in 2023

With its structural analyses of the German economy as a whole and of individual economic sectors, the Statistical Business Register provides political, economic and scientific stakeholders with an important basis for decision-making.

Date: June 17, 2025 Employment situation of overindebted persons 2024

Tables on the subject: Employment situation of overindebted persons by household size, household type, sex, marital status and age

Date: June 17, 2025 Main reasons of overindebtedness in %

The tables on the subject: Reasons of overindebtedness 2013 to 2024

Date: July 18, 2024 SMEs generated 77% of turnover in the economic sector of construction, accomodation and food services

Large enterprises have by far the largest turnover. In the reference year 2022, the turnover of SMEs amounted to 26% of the total turnover in the economic sectors studied. With 42% for gross value added, 44% for gross investment in tangible goods and …

Date: July 18, 2024 55% of the persons employed worked in SMEs

The vast majority of the enterprises in the economic sectors examined employed less than 250 persons and had an annual turnover of not more than 50 million Euro in 2022. Thus they belonged to the SMEs. This was true for 99.3% of the total of 3.1 …

Date: April 17, 2024 Revision in reporting year 2021

In reporting year 2021, the cross-sectoral business statistics were revised for the first time.

Date: February 21, 2024 2022: About 10% of the foreign-controlled enterprises have parent companies in Asia

About 10% of the foreign-controlled enterprises have parent companies in Asia. German enterprises whose parent companies are in Africa, South America or Australia and Oceania, were less frequent among all foreign-controlled enterprises.

Date: February 21, 2024 2022: About 4.4 million persons employed work in foreign-controlled enterprises in Germany

In 2022, exactly 38,438 companies belonged to a parent company based abroad. In addition to manufacturing, comprises the remaining industry, accommodation and food service activities and the service sector. From 2021, the areas of financial and …

Date: October 27, 2022 Services in 2020: information technology sector employed 903,000 people

In 2020, roughly 901,000 people worked in the 95,100 businesses in Germany whose main activity was in the field of information technology. The number of people working in that branch rose by approximately 42,000 (+0.3%) year-on-year, while the number …

Date: December 2, 2024 Business Register

Tables on the subject: Business Register, Legal Units, employees and turnover 2023

Date: October 12, 2020 Statistics on foreign-controlled enterprises

The statistic on foreign-controlled enterprises includes all enterprises resident in Germany that are controlled by a parent enterprise with its registered office abroad and belong tot he non-financial business economy.

Date: November 19, 2019 Motivation factors for international sourcing

The reasons for moving business functions abroad are mainly cost-related. Reducing labour costs and other costs was considered as rather important by 84.4% and 62.1%, respectively, by the relevant enterprises.

Date: July 31, 2019 Insurance industry: Gross premiums are growing again

At the end of 2017, roughly 1,288 direct insurance and reinsurance companies and pension funds were operating in Germany. While direct insurers cover various risks of private individuals and businesses, reinsurers cover the risks of other insurance …

Date: July 30, 2024 Enterprises engaged in foreign trade: New opportunities for analysis due to microdata linking

The analysis of the foreign trade activities of enterprises using linked datasets gives researchers and policymakers the opportunity to gain new insights. This article sheds light on various options for linking a new set of foreign trade data, the …

Date: July 27, 2016 Manufacturing in Januar 2019: Turnover +0.6% seasonally adjusted on the previous month

The price-adjusted turnover in manufacturing in January 2019 was up a seasonally and calendar adjusted 0.6% on the previous month. In December 2018, the corrected figure showed an increase of 3.2% to November 2018 (provisional: +2.7%).

Date: July 27, 2016 More than 107,000 enterprises in the ICT sector in 2016

The information and communication technology (ICT) sector is composed of specialised enterprises of industry (ICT goods production), enterprises trading ICT goods (ICT wholesale trade) and enterprises providing services in the field of IT and …

Date: July 27, 2016 Development of new Producer Price Indices for Services

The new Service Producer Price Indices are based on development projects which serve the production of new data for the increasingly important tertiary sector. Hence, methodological studies have been conducted and discussed on an international level. …

Date: July 27, 2016 Results on the producer prices of services

Detailed information on the producer prices of services and relevant data can be found in the Genesis Online database.

Date: July 27, 2016 Truck toll mileage index for Länder: regional mileage and industrial activity

The truck toll mileage index measures the mileage covered by trucks with four or more axles, which are subject to toll charges, on German motorways. As of reference month October, truck toll mileage indices for the Länder have also been available. …

Press release No. 184 of 12 May 2023 Number of larger businesses established in the 1^st quarter of 2023 down 5.5% year on year

In the 1^st quarter of 2023, roughly 33,100 businesses were established in Germany whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they are of greater economic importance. Based on the evaluation of business notifications, the Federal …

Press release No. 185 of 12 May 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in April 2023 down 14.1% on previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany decreased by 14.1% in April 2023 compared with the previous month. In February and March 2023, in contrast, there …

Press release No. 162 of 19 April 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in March 2023 up 13.2% on the previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 13.2% in March 2023 compared with the previous month. In February 2023, it rose by 10.8% from …

Press release No. 109 of 17 March 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in February 2023 up 10.8% on the previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 10.8% in February 2023 compared with the previous month. In January 2023, however, there had been a …

Press release No. N 016 of 13 March 2023 Food and beverage services: number of employees still considerably lower in 2022 than before the Covid-19 crisis

The food and beverage services sector lost many of their staff in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of employees increased in 2022 but was still markedly lower than in the pre-Covid year of 2019. Last year, 12.5% more people were employed …

Press release No. 061 of 15 February 2023 Number of larger businesses established in 2022 down 9.3%

In 2022, just over 115,100 businesses were started in Germany whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they have greater economic importance. Based on an evaluation of business notifications, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) …

Press release No. 057 of 13 February 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in January 2023 down 3.2% on previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany fell by 3.2% in January 2023 compared with the previous month. In December 2022, there had been a 3.1% increase …

Press release No. 014 of 11 January 2023 Requests for normal business insolvency in December 2022 up 3.1% on the previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 3.1% in December 2022 compared with November 2022. In November 2022, the figure had been up by 1.2% …

Press release No. 527 of 12 December 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in November 2022 up 1.2% on the previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 1.2% in November 2022 compared with October 2022. In October 2022, the figure had been up 18.4% on …

Press release No. 498 of 29 November 2022 61% of enterprises involved in global value-added chains in 2020

61% of the just under 64,000 enterprises with 50 or more persons employed in Germany were part of a global value-added chain in 2020. In this context they received goods or services from other countries or delivered them there. The Federal …

Press release No. 495 of 25 November 2022 Filling IT vacancies increasingly difficult for businesses

A growing number of businesses in Germany have difficulties filling IT vacancies while the frequency of IT security incidents is increasing. More than a fifth (22%) of businesses with 10 or more employees had their own IT specialists in 2022, …

Press release No. 477 of 14 November 2022 Number of larger businesses started between January and September 2022 down 7.3%

Just over 89,200 businesses were started in Germany in the first three quarters of 2022, whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they have greater economic importance. Based on an evaluation of business notifications, the Federal …

Press release No. 475 of 11 November 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in October 2022 up 18.4% on the previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 18.4% in October 2022 compared with September 2022. Their number had fallen by 20.6% in September …

Press release No. 461 of 31 October 2022 Number of larger businesses started between January and August 2022 down 6.6%

Between January and August 2022, just over 80,200 businesses were started in Germany whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they have greater economic importance. Based on an evaluation of business notifications, the Federal …

Press release No. 444 of 17 October 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in September 2022 down 20.6% on previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany in September 2022 fell by 20.6% on August 2022. Their number had increased by 6.6% in August 2022 from July 2022. …

Press release No. 382 of 12 September 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency up 6.6% in August 2022 on the previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 6.6% in August 2022 compared with July 2022. Their number had fallen by 4.2% in July 2022 from June …

Press release No. 337 of 10 August 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in July 2022 down 4.2% on previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany in July 2022 fell by 4.2% on June 2022. It had already fallen by 7.6% in June on May 2022.

Press release No. 297 of 13 July 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in June 2022 down 7.6% on previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany in June 2022 fell by 7.6% on May 2022. The increase observed in May (+8.4% on April 2022) did not continue. …

Press release No. 241 of 13 June 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in May 2022 up 8.4% on the previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 8.4% in May 2022 compared with April 2022. The decrease observed in April (-20.8% on March 2022) did …

Press release No. 198 of 11 May 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in April 2022 down 20.8% on previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany in April 2022 fell by 20.8% on March 2022. The increase observed in March (+27.0% on February 2022) did not …

Press release No. 197 of 11 May 2022 Start-ups of larger businesses up 2.7% in the 1^st quarter of 2022

In the 1^st quarter of 2022, just over 35,000 businesses were started in Germany whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they have greater economic importance. Based on an evaluation of business notifications, the Federal Statistical …

Press release No. 167 of 14 April 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in March 2022 up 27.0% on the previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany increased by 27.0% in March 2022 compared with February 2022. The number of such requests had already risen by …

Press release No. 098 of 10 March 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in February 2022 up 4.2% on previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany fell by 4.2% in February 2022 on January 2022. Their number had dropped by 17.2% in January 2022 compared with …

Press release No. 072 of 24 February 2022 Turnover in January 2022: -1.3% on the previous month

Turnover in the non-financial business economy in Germany declined in January 2022 compared with the previous month. Based on the early indicator compiled from advance turnover tax returns, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the …

Press release No. 061 of 14 February 2022 Start-ups of larger businesses in 2021 up 8.4% year on year

In 2021, just over 126,900 businesses were started in Germany whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they have greater economic importance. Based on an evaluation of business notifications, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) …

Press release No. 054 of 10 February 2022 Requests for normal business insolvency in January 2022 down 17.2% on previous month

Based on provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of requests for normal business insolvency in Germany in January 2022 fell by 17.2% on December 2021. It rose by 18.0% in December 2021 compared with the previous …

Press release No. N004 of 31 January 2022 On the eve of the Olympic Games: Importance of China as a trading partner increased again in 2021

The People's Republic of China is expected to remain Germany’s most important trading partner also in 2021 – for the sixth time in a row. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that goods to the value of 222.3 billion euros were traded …

Press release No. 037 of 27 January 2022 Turnover in December 2021: +1.7% on the previous month

Turnover in the non-financial business economy in Germany increased again in December 2021 compared with the previous month. Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the nominal (not price adjusted) turnover …