Gross national revenue in Germany reached Euro 3,427.1 billion in 2020. Per capita this was Euro 41,213. Gross domestic product totalled Euro 3,332.2 billion and Euro 40,072 per capita.
In 2020, based on the yearly average according to the microcensus, the number of people in employment in Germany was just less than 41.6 million or 58.8 per cent of the working-age population, including more than 19.4 million women, i.e. 54 per cent of the female working-age population.
In 2020, the average number of unemployed was just less than 2.7 million people, just less than 2.1 million in the Länder in western Germany and over 0.6 million unemployed in the Länder in eastern Germany. In the Länder in western Germany, the unemployment rate was 5.6 per cent, in the Länder in eastern Germany 7.3 per cent. This amounts to an unemployment rate for Germany of 5.9 per cent. An average of 257,361 (9.5 per cent of all unemployed people) persons under 25 years of age were without employment in 2020.
Education spending as a proportion of gross domestic product
| 2005 | 2010 | 2020 |
| 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt, Bildungsfinanzbericht 2021
Educational attainment of the 25-64-year-old population in per cent
| 2005 | 2010 | 2020 | |
| Below upper secondary | 17 | 14 | 14 |
| Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary | 59 | 59 | 55 |
| Tertiary education | 25 | 27 | 31 |
Source: Secretariat of the Standing Conference