Our figure of the month 10/2023: Young talent for the construction industry
The construction industry is currently caught between slumping order numbers due to high construction and financing costs and the German government's goal of building 400,000 homes a year. In addition, the finishing trade in particular…
Our figure of the month 09/2023: Turning point in the manufacturing sector
German industry is in the midst of times of structural upheaval and faces a variety of challenges: High energy costs, inflation, a shortage of skilled workers, crippling digitalization, decarbonization and the global trend towards…
Our figure of the month 08/2023: Median wages on spatial planning regions
For the analysis of wage developments, the Federal Employment Agency evaluates the medians of the monthly gross wages of full-time employees subject to social insurance at the place of work at the end of the year. At the regional level,…
Our figure of the month 07/2023: Employees affected by a peatland restoration project
The drained moors in Germany emit as many emissions annually as the entire German air traffic. For centuries, peatlands have been drained to meet the growing demand for settlement and agricultural land [1]. Systematic drainage has led to…
Our figure of the month 06/2023: Expenditures for energy and food place a particularly heavy burden on lower incomes
The inflation rate in Germany remains at a high level even after more than a year of war in Ukraine. Although the consumer price index has now weakened for the second month in a row, it remains significantly elevated and places a…
Our figure of the month 05/2023: The higher interest rates have not yet stopped the rise of the house prices
Higher financing costs and increased material costs have hardly slowed down the house prices for a single-family home in Germany. A detached single-family house from the existing buildings with a living space of around 125 sqm, in a…
New platform sheds light on the bioeconomy
How sustainable is the German bioeconomy? The new platform – monitoring-bioeconomy.org– bundles knowledge in straightforward graphics and overview summaries to explore this question. An online database also provides the opportunity for…
Update and extension of the Algerian model e3.dz completed
Work carried out as part of the GIZ project "Policy dialogue and knowledge management on low emission development strategies in the MENA region" (DIAPOL-CE) on the model already developed by GWS for the Gesellschaft für Internationale…
Our figure of the month 04/2023: Import dependency on China continues to grow
For some years now, a debate has been sparked in Germany about the resilience of supply chains and dependencies on individual states. In 2022, this debate was largely driven by the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine, which unsparingly…
Our figure of the month 03/2023: Number of people in need of care in Germany doubles to 5 million within ten years
The latest care statistics show that there will be around 4.96 million people in need of care in Germany in 2021, a huge increase on previous years. All persons who receive benefits from social long-term care insurance are counted as…