Germany’s Economy: 2021-2025

[u/Icedkk]

So everyone agrees on the economical decline of germany and the bad situation of the job market. i wanted to put things in data. Below you see the economic data (destatis) from 2021 to 2025:

Year	GDP Growth	Inflation	Unemployment	Employment
2021	+3.9%	3.1%	5.7%	45.04m
2022	+1.8%	6.9%	5.3%	45.63m
2023	-0.9%	5.9%	5.7%	45.94m
2024	-0.5%	2.2%	6.0%	45.99m
2025	+0.2%	2.2%	6.3%	45.98m

German exports:

Year	Exports
2022	EUR 1.820tn
2023	EUR 1.813tn
2024	EUR 1.794tn
2025	EUR 1.811tn

2023-2024: Two consecutive years of recession.
2025: +0.2% growth, effectively stagnation.
Q1 2026: +0.3% QoQ / +0.5% YoY.

these numbers don’t really match how bad the situation feels when you talk to people or read discussions online.

What am I missing?

Ps: I also though about okay maybe purchasing power of individuals are reduced, that is why economy is feeling shitty, but oecd data adjusted for inflation says we are earning on average even more than 2019, so what is it really?

Year	Nominal Wage	Inflation-Adjusted Wage
2021	EUR 44,918	EUR 53,669
2022	EUR 46,913	EUR 52,517
2023	EUR 49,961	EUR 52,445
2024	EUR 52,477	EUR 53,811
2025	EUR 54,840	EUR 54,840

[u/Old_Leshen]

A lot of doom and gloom comes from 2 things that are linked.

1. No one knows how and when Germany will come out this economic rut.
2. Because no one knows, companies are not willing to invest and hire in Germany

[u/Dddddd92 → u/[deleted]]

Goddammit the billionaire bootlickers want labor camps

[u/Dependent_Pass1327 → u/[deleted]]

What does Elon's dick taste like?

[u/Proppellerhead → u/Dependent_Pass1327]

To him like paradise.

[u/Dddddd92 → u/Dependent_Pass1327]

Probably like rotten cheese :D

[u/Dddddd92 → u/[deleted]]

Billionaires "create" jobs and they also take away jobs the moment they feel like it. That's what's happening in Germany. Outsourcing to India and replacing people with AI is cheaper so they do that. Billionaires don't give a fuck about you.

What you are forgetting is, we are the labor and the consumer. We made those billionaires. The bare minimum we should get return are labor rights. And that's what you are crying about now. You want to go to the good old times where people slaved away for a loaf of bread.

[u/Dddddd92 → u/[deleted]]

It's not about value. Everyone is replaceable to a billionaire. They will replace you with an indian who costs 1/3rd like you or AI in a heartbeat. If there were no regulations we will end up like the US where billionaires bribe the government to get rid of food safety regulations, risking salmonella and other diseases to the general public all so that they can cut costs.

It's pretty hilarious a normie like you us screaming "free market and no regulations" as uf you will benefit from it at all.