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Number of employed people in Germany reaches highest level since 1990

Xinhua, January 2, 2017 Adjust font size:

Approximately 43.4 million people residing in Germany were in employment in 2016, representing the highest level since the German reunification in 1990, official data showed on Monday.

According to the first provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office Destatis, the number of people in employment in 2016 were up by 1.0 percent compared to that in 2015.

"Hence, the employment increase observed for over ten years continued," Destatis noted.

An increase in the employment of the domestic population and the immigration of foreign workers would have compensated demographic effects, Destatis added.

In addition, the unemployment rate was provisionally estimated down from 4.3 percent to 4.0 percent, meaning that Germany has the second lowest unemployment rate in all members of the European Union, behind the Czech Republic, according to the Destatis. Endit