Construction industry employees Germany 2021

The number of employees in the construction industry in Germany saw no significant changes in 2021 in comparison to the previous year 2020 and remained at around 2308041 employees. Still, the number of employees reached its highest value in the observed period in 2021.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the construction industry in Germany from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	2,308,041
2020	2,294,823
2019	2,306,615
2018b	2,132,200
2017	1,999,900
2016	1,944,086
2015	1,893,888
2014	1,906,974
2013	1,741,693
2012	1,730,686

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Release date

March 2024

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Germany

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to Section F of CE Rev. 2.

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