Source: Federal Statistical Office, special evaluation

Notes:
1) Including personnel (FTE) which can not be distributed to Länder. As of 2023, the cell key method will be used for confidentiality purposes, which may result in discrepancies in the totals.
2) Survey reference day for each year is 30 June (ACTUAL). Personnel allocation to fields of sciences according to the structure of expenditure of the respective institution. As of 2015, changes of the classification of scientific branches and fields: engineering includes informatics.

- = no figures or magnitude zero.
m = data not available.
z = value not stated for reasons of confidentiality, but included in the total.

Last update: January 29, 2026

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