17.3% of new passenger car registrations in the EU last year were electric
Around one in six (17.3%) of all new passenger car registrations in the EU last year were electric vehicles, according…
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Some 4.6% of Germany’s population had outstanding utility bills last year
Some 4.6% of Germany‘s population, or 3.8 million people, lived in households with outstanding utility bills as of last year,…
One in ten people aged 20 to 24 not in education or employment in Germany
The percentage of young people aged 20 to 24 that are not in formal education or employment has risen in…
Road transport accounted for more than a fifth of Germany’s energy consumption and emissions in 2024
Road transport accounted for 22.2% of Germany‘s energy consumption and 21.4% of its total carbon dioxide emissions in 2024, new…
Foreign trade in Germany remains below pre-pandemic levels, despite annual increase
Foreign trade volumes in Germany remained below pre-pandemic levels in 2025, despite seeing their first annual increase for several years,…
Employment in Germany sees marginal decline in the first quarter of 2026
Some 45.6 million people were employed in Germany in the first quarter of this year, a marginal decline (0.1%) on…
Full-time employees in Germany worked an average of 39.9 hours per week in 2025
New data from Germany‘s federal statistics office (Destatis) has shown that full-time employees worked an average of 39.9 hours per…
Fuel prices in Germany up by a fifth compared to a year ago
Fuel prices in Germany were 20% more expensive in March 2026 than in the same month a year ago, according…
Birth rate in Germany falls 3.4%, hits lowest level since post-war period
The birth rate in Germany is now at its lowest level since 1946, with an estimated 654,300 children born last…
A quarter of Germans worked from home at least occasionally last year
Some 25% of Germany‘s employed population worked from home at least occasionally last year, according to new data from Destatis,…