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Investing.com -- The Federal Statistical Office of Germany released inflation and employment reports today. The inflation rate in Germany for February 2025 is expected to be at 2.3%, as measured by the change in the consumer price index (CPI) compared with February 2024. This is coupled with a 0.4% increase from January 2025. The core inflation rate, excluding food and energy, is projected to be 2.6% in February 2025.
The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices for February 2025 provisionally stands at 2.8% higher than the same month in the previous year, and 0.6% higher than the previous month.
The Federal Statistical Office also provided a Personal Inflation Calculator for consumers to calculate their personal inflation rate based on their monthly expenditure on individual product groups.
In terms of employment, the number of people employed in Germany in January 2025 was approximately 45.6 million. This represented a slight decrease of 9,000 (0.0%) from December 2024, after adjusting for seasonal effects. However, employment increased by an average of 7,000 persons per month from October to December 2024.
Without seasonal adjustment, the number of employed persons in January 2025 was down by 351,000 (-0.8%) compared to December 2024, a decline somewhat more pronounced than the average drop observed in January 2023 and January 2024.
In a year-on-year comparison, the employment rate in January 2025 was down by 0.1%, or 37,000 people, compared to January 2024. The year-on-year rate of change was also -0.1% in December 2024.
The adjusted unemployment rate for January 2025 was 3.5%, with 1.56 million people unemployed. This was an increase of 9,000 people or 0.6% compared to December 2024. However, without adjustment for seasonal and irregular effects, the number of unemployed rose by 271,000, or 19.3%, compared to January 2024, bringing the unemployment rate to 3.7%.
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