Germany: manufacture of food products number of employees 2021

The number of employees in the food product manufacturing industry in Germany increased by 19,364 employees (+2.3 percent) since the previous year. In total, the number of employees amounted to 860,338 employees 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 food products manufacturing sector in Germany from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Total number of employees
2021	860,338
2020	840,974
2019	877,557
2018b	874,611
2017	786,044
2016	796,175
2015	754,218
2014	752,314
2013	768,584
2012	772,021

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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 further explanation: 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 C10 of CE Rev2.

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