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Germany: Employment in industry

25.97percent · 2025-6.0% since 2015

Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement. The industry sector consists of mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, and public utilities (electricity, gas, and water), in accordance with divisions 2-5 (ISIC 2) or categories C-F (ISIC 3) or categories B-F (ISIC 4). Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Germany from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202525.974
202426.29
202326.396
202226.774
202127.381
202027.23
201927.15
201827.346
201727.408
201627.337
201527.624
201428.085
201327.726
201228.197
201127.664
201028.757
200928.826
200829.331
200730.36
200629.853
200529.84
200431.253
200331.378
200232.367
200132.782
200033.531
199933.835
199834.39
199734.674
199635.272
199536.004
199436.5
199337.353
199238.024
199138.433

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Employment in industry. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-employment-in-industry (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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