Facts and Figures

  • Intro

Hessen Facts and Figures

Greetings

 

 

 

Dr. Rainer Waldschmidt

 

 

 

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Infrastructure
Economic Structure
Financial Services
Start-up Ecosystem
Trade Fairs
Labor Market and Workforce
Hessen International
Research and Development
International Communities

Infrastructure

  • Hessen in the Heart of Europe

The gateway to Europe

514

mil. affluent consumers in Europe

Europe‘s connecting city

All European business centers within a

3 hour

flying radius

In the Center of European Markets

Access to the German and European Market

Source: Eurostat | Calculations HA Hessen Agentur

Infrastructure

  • Europe‘s Data Hub

DE-CIX – the world’s largest internet node is in Frankfurt.

 

Frankfurt is a gigabyte city (approx. 90% of Frankfurt‘s households can surf the internet with 1 gigabyte per second).

 

The Rhine-Main region is on its way to become a gigabyte region.

Top placement in Germany’s broadband expansion.

 

Hessen is in the leading group for broadband business supply within Germany.

 

Mobile communications – Hessen achieves LTE coverage for more than 99% of households from all 3 networks.

Source: Research HA Hessen Agentur | Breitbandbüro Hessen, HTAI | DE-CIX

Infrastructure

  • Europe‘s largest international Airports

Frankfurt Airport

55 %

Transfer Passengers

99

Countries

259

Destinations

88

Airlines

5,050

Direct Flights per Week

69.5

mil. Passengers per Year

2.2

mil. Metric Tons of Cargo per Year

  

Traffic volume by sector 2018 Passengers (total traffic in millions) Cargo (total traffic in 1,000 metric tons) Aircraft movements (in thousands)
Frankfurt (FRA) 69.5 2,213 512
Paris (CDG) 65.9 2,135 473
Amsterdam (AMS) 63.6 1,662 479
London (LHR) 75.7 1,541 473

 

Source: Fraport AG | Research HA Hessen Agentur

Economic Structure

Source: Hessian State Statistical Office | German Federal Employment Agency Statistics | Calculations: HA Hessen Agentur
Source: Hessian State Statistical Office | German Federal Employment Agency Statistics | Calculations: HA Hessen Agentur
Source: Hessian State Statistical Office | German Federal Employment Agency Statistics | Calculations: HA Hessen Agentur

Economic Structure

  • Selected Structural Data

265

Gross value added 
in € bn

75.4

Tertiary Sector in %

(measured by gross value added)

6.29

Population in million

21,116

Area in km²

2.63

Employees subject to social security contributions in million

Source: German Federal Statistical Office | German State Statistical Offices | German Federal Employment Agency Statistics | German Regional Accounts Working Group | Calculations: HA Hessen Agentur

Economic Structure

  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per Capita
Hessen and selected G20 Countries in Comparison
Quelle: Weltbank, Arbeitskreis VGR der Länder, Berechnung HA Hessenagentur 201X

Financial Services

  • German and Foreign Banks in Frankfurt

160

Foreign Banks

38

German Banks

Home to around 198 German and foreign banks, including Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt is Germany‘s leading financial centre and plays an outstanding role in continental Europe.

The Frankfurt stock market is one of the world’s largest trading platforms for securities.

At the House of Finance approx. 200 researchers work on issues relevant for the capital market.

Frankfurt is the leading financial center in continental Europe and no. 2 in Europe.

The credit institutions in the financial center of Frankfurt employ 64,100 persons.

Quelle: Bundesbank: Bankenplatz Frankfurt
Stand: September 2019

Start-up Ecosystem

  • Where Ideas and Innovations are born

45

Cluster and Network Initiatives with almost 3,800 Members

7.6

Start-Ups per 1,000 Inhabitants
(German Average: 6.5)

Approx.

40

Technology and new Business Centers

Frankfurt‘s TechQuartier (TQ) serves as a central contact point for Start-up and FinTech companies

The proportion of Fintech start ups is especially high in the financial center of Frankfurt: 1 out of 8 start ups works in the financial sector here. Other important sectors are AI, Big Data & Analytics and Cybersecurity. Overall, there are about 300 start ups in Frankfurt and the surrounding area.

Source: German Federal Statistical Office | Startup Genome | Research HA Hessen Agentur

Trade Fairs

  • International Trade Fair Location

41

International Trade Fairs and Exhibitions

1.8

mil. Visitors

> 37,000

Exhibitors

1.3 mil.

Square Meters of Total Space

Leading international trade fairs for consumer goods, lifestyle products, textiles, architecture, and media

Around 2,600 employees generated a revenue of € 736 million in 2019.

105 Events abroad with more than 57,000 Exhibitors and over 2.4 mil. Visitors

Source: Messe Frankfurt, Annual Report 2019
As of: September 2019

Labor Market and Workforce

  • Employees by Economic Sector
Share of employees subject to social security contributions in percent
Source: German Federal Employment Agency Statistics | Calculations HA Hessen Agentur 2018

Labor Market and Workforce

  • Youth Unemployment Rates in EU Countries

Vocational training is crucial for Hessen's innovative strength and competitiveness. An essential pillar is the dual training system. It provides companies with qualified and practically trained specialists who can contribute to the company‘s value chain right after training. Around 38,000 new training contracts are concluded in Hessen every year. With only 4.5 percent, youth unemployment is at a low level, both in the national and international comparison. Due to the great importance of dual training, it provides trainees with advanced qualifications within the respective occupational groups or access to higher education without a secondary school certificate.

In addition to standard university programs, advancement is also possible in the form of dual study programs, where practical on-the-job study content in companies is combined with the theoretical content in dual universities to offer a more practice oriented course of study. More and more companies, universities and young people are seeing the advantages of a dual study program 130 courses at 17 universities and vocational academies speak for themselves.

Selected states and Hessen in comparison, September 2019
Source: Federal Institute for Vocational Training | Statista | Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing, State of Hessen | Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts
*as of July 2019

Hessen International

100,118

Import in mil. €

64,213

Export in mil. €

  

Demand for chemicals and pharmaceutical goods continued abroad in 2018, imports dominated by electrical products

The Hessian economy exported goods to the value of 64.2 bil. € in 2018. This corresponds to an increase of 1.5 % compared to the previous year. On the import side, Hessen recorded a growth of 5.9 € with an import volume of 100.1 bil. €.

 

The products of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries are by far Hessen’s greatest export success. In 2018 they continue to head the rankings of the most important export goods with a volume of 18.4 billion euros. This corresponds to 28.7 percent of Hessen‘s export volume.

They are followed by products in electrical engineering as well as mechanical and vehicle engineering. These product groups are also the most important import goods. Electrical engineering products account for the largest import volume with 15.7 bil. €, followed by chemical and pharmaceutical products with 13.5 bil €.

 

Please note: Due to the different demarcations between export (special trade) and import (general trade), netting is not possible.

Source: Hessian State Statistical Office | Calculations: HA Hessen Agentur
Source: Hessian State Statistical Office | Calculations: HA Hessen Agentur
Source: Hessian State Statistical Office | Calculations: HA Hessen Agentur

Hessen International

  • Trading Partners

  

Exports 2018 Top 10 Countries
Country Hessen
in € million		 Percentage of total exports [%]
USA 7,719 12.0%
France 4,958 7.7%
Netherlands 4,370 6.8%
United Kingdom 4,260 6.6%
China 3,739 5.8%
Italy 3,205 5,0%
Poland 3,037 4.7%
Austria 3,010 4.7%
Spain 2,445 3.8%
Belgium 2,293 3.6%
Total 64,512

100.0%

  

Imports 2018 Top 10 Countries
Country Hessen
in € million		 Percentage of total imports [%]
China 10,942 10.9%
USA 10,466 10.5%
Russia 7,378 7.4%
France 6,008 6.0%
Switzerland 5,525 5.5%
Netherlands 5,045 5,0%
United Kingdom 4,929 4.9%
Japan 4,925 4.9%
Italy 4,473 4.5%
Belgium 4,146 4.1%
Total 99,974 100.0%
Source: Hessian State Statistical Office | Calculations HA Hessen Agentur

Hessen International

  • Foreign direct investment in Hessen by country
Foreign direct investments in Germany accounted for 533.8 billion euros, of which 104.8 billion euros were invested in Hessen. Thus, approximately 20% of foreign direct investments went to Hessen.
Quelle: Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, 10. Juni 2020. Anmerkung: Top 15 entspricht alle Länder mit mehr als 1 Mrd. Investitionsbestand (unmittelbare und mittelbare FDI) in Hessen
Source: German Central Bank | Calculations HA Hessen Agentur | At the end of 2017

Hessen International

  • Foreign direct investment in Hessen
New Establishments and Expansion Investments from Established International Companies 2012 – 2018
Source: German Central Bank | Calculations HA Hessen Agentur 17 | At the end of 2017

Research and Development

Around

80

Universities, research institutes, and institutions for academic education

3,500

Businesses in about

40

Cluster and Network Initiatives

Above average number of universities and higher education institutions:

6.1

universities per 1 mil. inhabitants. (Germany: 5.2)

Around

40

Technology and start up centres

20

National institutes for basic and applied research

Source: German Federal Statistical Office | DFG German Research Foundation | Hessian State Statistical Office

7

Universities

16

Universities of Applied Sciences

15

Other universities

1

Helmholtz Institute

8

Max Planck Institutes

7

Fraunhofer Institutes

4

Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibnitz Research Institutes

25

Other research institutes

Source: German Federal Statistical Office | DFG German Research Foundation | Hessian State Statistical Office

International Communities

  • At Home in Hessen

1,090,460 people from 190 nations come together in Hessen’s business communities, where interests are bundled and many different networking possibilities are created. 

Over 12,500 foreign companies have already decided in favor of Hessen as their preferred location.

Here, outstanding employment perspectives open up for employees from any background The amount of employees from international
communities has increased by 42.2% since 2014. Hence, currently 15.5% of the people employed come from international communities

35

international and multilingual schools

180

international business and culture clubs

106

consulates

60

foreign chambers of commerce

Source: German Federal Employment Agency Statistics | State Chancellery Hessen| Research HA Hessen Agentur | Deutsche Post