Press release No. 187 of 14 April 2021
WIESBADEN – Roughly 465,200 people in Germany concluded a new apprenticeship contract within the dual system (enterprise/vocational school) in 2020. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of new apprenticeship contracts dropped by 9.4% compared with 2019. This result reveals that the coronavirus crisis has a profound effect on the apprenticeship market. Though apprenticeship figures have shown a downward trend for years, the scale of the current slump is unprecedented.
