More young people started training in Germany last year than in 2022. The number of new training contracts rose by 10,000 (2.1 percent) to 479,900.
This is the third increase in a row - after 466,200 in 2021. However, the sharp decline as a result of the Corona crisis has not yet been completely made up for. The Federal Employment Agency sees problems with mobility. The challenge now is to support young people in becoming more mobile regionally, but also nationally, the agency's CEO says. The total number of trainees in Germany remained stable in 2023 compared to the previous year - 1,215,500 people were in training at the end of the year. That was only 01 percent less than in 2021 - the trend of falling training numbers has slowed down.. In the current training year 2023/2024 the trend is once again pointing upwards. By March, 52,000 applicants informed the training agency that they had found a job. That's 1,000 more than a year ago.