Economic Data

The following official institutions provide detailed data on the German economy:

• A brief overview of the German economy is available in the information brochure ''Business Briefing - Germany'' by Germany Trade and Invest, which may be downloaded from this website.
• The German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) publishes regularly up-to-date statistical information about Germany and its economy. All users have access to the large database of Destatis available for basic and bespoke research.
• The Statistical Offices of the German Federal States provide regional data accessible through their common statistics portal.
• The German Federal Bank (Bundesbank) is responsible for several tasks in the field of statistics, which mainly relate to the general price level as well as the financial and monetary system. 
• The German Council of Economic Experts (Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der wirtschaftlichen Lage), which is often referred to as the ''five economic sages'', was established by federal law as an independent think tank to advise the German government on economic policy and analyze the current economic situation. The Council publishes an Annual Report on the German economy, which is available online. 
• The Statistics Office of the European Commission (Eurostat) offers several up-to-date national and European market indicators online, thus giving an impression of Germany's role as one of the biggest economies in Europe.
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) regularly provides updated surveys on Germany on its website.

Further sources of information on the national economic development are the economic research institutes in Germany. These independent non-profit scientific organizations are think tanks in economic research that provide current surveys and analyzes on their websites. A list is available for download on this website.