Day care for children

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21 October 2022 35.5% of children under three in day care on 1 March 2022

Compared with a year earlier, the number of children under three years in day care increased by roughly 28,800 to stand at a total of 838,700 on 1 March 2022. This means that the number of children under three in day care rose by 3.6% from 1 March 2021. In Germany as a whole, the percentage of children under the age of three in day care was 35.5% (2021: 34.4%), according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The upward trend thus continued after having been interrupted in 2021. The number of staff in day care centres increased by 3.2% on the previous year whereas the number of professional child minders decreased by 2.7%.

23 September 2021 Staff employed in day care for children up 3.2% in 2021 on the previous year

19 February 2021 2.8 million pupils taught at primary schools in Germany in the current school year of 2020/21

14 October 2020 Childcare: parents pay an average of 1,310 euros per year

30 September 2020 Percentage of children under three in childcare has risen to 35.0%

20 August 2020 Percentage of under-3-year-olds in child care: rural districts in Sachsen-Anhalt rank first in Germany

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