Press release No. N 023 of 31 March 2021
WIESBADEN – The coronavirus pandemic has had a massive impact across all areas of daily life in Germany since its outbreak in March 2020. Within one year, it has given rise to extraordinary developments in the economy and society, in the government budget and education, in transport and in the population figures. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) provides an overview of particularly dramatic changes in the corona year 2020 and in early 2021.