Germany Labor Force Participation
Germany labor force participation data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 60.57%.
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Germany · labor force participation data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Germany recorded 60.57% for Labor Force Participation in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.35 percentage points, from 60.92% to 60.57%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (60.75%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 60.40% in 2021 and the high was 61.31% in 2019.