Employment — national citizens

In 2020, Germany's employment decreased by 1.9% compared to 2019, reaching 35,158k.

Germany accounts for 19.9% of the EU-27 total of 176,467k.

Germany ranks 1st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.3% (from 35,269k in 2015).

Source: Eurostat dataset lfsa_egan, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.