The Development of the Educational System in Germany: Comprehensive Schools 1960–2000

This data collection aims at providing long series on different sections of the German educational system. For this purpose, special data have been compiled, mainly from the fields of primary and secondary schools, vocational education, universities, the population, and selected key figures.
These time series refer exclusively to data on the national level. Consequently, no data series referring to the German Länder have been itemised within the scope of this compilation.
Hereby the official educational statistics by the Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt) serve as a main source, providing continuous data collections and regular reporting on a long-term basis. These educational statistics, however, were set up as recently as in the 1950s, so that the data series primarily refer to the period between 1960 and 2000. The accession of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany in October 1990 is reflected in the data series by a distinct break between 1989 and 1990. From 1960–1990 (and partly until 1991), the respective values refer to the area of the Old West German states. From 1991 on, the reporting extends to the Old and the New German Länder, i.e. to the whole of Germany.

Factual classification of the tables in HISTAT:
A Comprehensive Schools
A1. Overview
A2. Schools per school type
A3. School years per school type
A4. School enrollment per school type
A5. Numbers of teachers per school type

B Colleges and universities
B1. Overview
B2. Colleges and universities according to their type
B3. Students per college and university type
B4. Professors per college and university type

C Vocational education
C1. Overview
C2. Vocational schools
C3. School years
C4. Students at vocational schools
C5. Teachers at vocational schools

D Grants for pupils and students
D1. Recipients of grant aids as provided by the BaföG law (promotion scheme of vocational training in Germany)
D2. Scope and type of grants

E Educational expenses
E1 Public expenses for educational institutions on federal, länder, and community level
E2 Public expenses
E3 GDP, GNP, national income

F Population