Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg

What Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg does

Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg is the official state statistical office of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, established in 1953 and headquartered in Fellbach. It operates as a statutory government agency under the supervision of the state Ministry of Finance, with a workforce in the 501-1,000 range. Its mandate is to collect, process, analyze, and disseminate official statistics covering all major socioeconomic domains — population, labor, education, health, housing, social security, finance and taxation, judiciary, elections, economy, industry, agriculture, and the environment — for the state and its 1,101 municipalities.

The office delivers its outputs through a portfolio of digital and physical channels. The primary platform is the GENESIS-Online interactive database, which provides filterable, downloadable access to official state statistics. Supplementary products include the monthly Statistisches Monatsheft analytical publication, the Statistik Kommunal municipal-level data sheets, the Konjunkturspiegel economic indicator dashboard, Karten und Atlanten geographic visualizations, and the FamilienForschung research unit. Communication is sustained through a press release archive of over 3,600 releases, a newsletter subscription service, an official website (statistik-bw.de), and educational outreach such as the EU-Schülerquiz competition.

The office does not operate a commercial revenue model. It is funded entirely through the state budget of Baden-Württemberg and provides its statistical outputs free of charge or at cost-recovery pricing to government agencies, businesses, researchers, media, and the general public. Its core strategic relationships are with the German federal statistical system (Statistischer Verbund), including the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), and the European Statistical System (ESS) coordinated through Eurostat, which together ensure methodological harmonization and data interoperability with national and EU-level statistics.

Name

Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg

Legal name

Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg

Website

https://statistik-bw.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1953

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg is the official state statistical office of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, collecting and disseminating official socioeconomic statistics across all 1,101 municipalities via its GENESIS-Online database, publications, and press releases, funded entirely by the state budget.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government statistical services

NAICS

Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined (921140), Periodical Publishers (513120)

akta.pro primary industry

National Statistics & Census Administration (BPAIAAAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Health Statistics & Reporting (National/State/Local Indicators) (HLAJAJAC), Government, Public Policy & Regulatory Reference (Public Administration, Regulatory Guidance) (EDAGAGAK)

Keywords

• Official statistics publishing
• Government statistical services
• Statistical data dissemination
• Regional economic indicators
• Municipal statistical reports

Headquarters

HQ city

Stuttgart

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

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GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: Funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg through tax revenues. Operates as a public institution providing official statistics as a government service.

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Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg is the official state statistical office that collects, processes, and publishes official statistics covering population, economy, society, education, health, labor, finance, environment, and industry for Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It disseminates data through the GENESIS-Online interactive database, periodic publications (Statistisches Monatsheft, Statistik Kommunal), economic dashboards (Konjunkturspiegel), geographic visualizations (Karten und Atlanten), a family-research unit (FamilienForschung), press releases, and a newsletter service to government agencies, businesses, researchers, media, and the general public.

Product overview

Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg operates as the official statistical office of the German state, providing a portfolio of data access and dissemination services. The core offering is the Statistikdatenbank (GENESIS-Online) database, supplemented by analytical publications including the monthly Statistisches Monatsheft and municipality-specific Statistik Kommunal reports. Additional services include Karten und Atlanten for geographic visualizations, the FamilienForschung research unit for family-related statistics, and the Konjunkturspiegel economic dashboard. All services support public administration, business decision-making, and civic engagement with official statistical data across all societal domains.

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Statistischer Verbund (Federal Statistical System)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the German federal statistical system (Statistischer Verbund), coordinating with the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) and other state statistical offices to produce harmonized official statistics.
• Europäisches Statistiksystem (European Statistical System)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipates in the European Statistical System (ESS), cooperating with Eurostat and statistical offices of other EU member states to produce comparable European statistics.

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Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Statista GmbH: A German-headquartered private commercial data aggregator that repackages official statistics (including those of German Landesämter) into subscription-based, UX-optimized products for business users. Not a direct competitor on the production side, but the clearest downstream commercial channel for the agency's underlying outputs and a key peer shaping user expectations around data access.
• OECD Statistics Directorate (OECD.stat): The statistics arm of the OECD, providing cross-country comparable datasets that include contributions from national and regional statistical offices. Indirect peer in the sense that OECD.stat competes for the same "trusted international statistics" audience segment, and is a benchmark for standardized data publication infrastructure.

Emerging players

• Office for National Statistics (ONS, UK): The UK's national statistics agency, offering a comparable scope of population, economic, and social statistics through its website, API (NOMIS), and publications. Although structurally a national rather than regional office, it is a methodological and digital-publication peer frequently benchmarked by German Landesämter.
• INSEE (France): France's national statistical institute producing official statistics across economy, demographics, and society through insee.fr and the data platform insee.fr/fr/statistiques. Comparable in function (official statistics producer), with a substantially larger scope and a digital platform that German Landesämter often reference for UX benchmarking.
• Statistics Canada (StatCan): Canada's national statistical agency, recognized as a global leader in modernizing official statistics through API-first dissemination and integrated data infrastructure. Relevant functional peer because of similar mandate and ongoing digital transformation efforts, even though scale and jurisdiction differ substantially.

Direct peers

• Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik: The statistical office of the neighboring German state of Bavaria, with nearly identical mandate, product portfolio (GENESIS-Online, regional publications, municipal statistics), and institutional structure (state statistical office under the German federal statistical system). This is the closest functional peer to Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg.
• Statistisches Landesamt Nordrhein-Westfalen (IT.NRW): State statistical office for North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the largest German Landesämter, operating the same statutory mandate, GENESIS-Online interface, and municipal-data products for its jurisdiction. Highly comparable in operational scale, product structure, and within-system coordination.

Broad incumbents

• Eurostat: The statistical office of the European Union, of which Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg is a member through the European Statistical System (ESS). Operates at the supranational level, aggregating national and regional statistics produced by member state offices including Baden-Württemberg's contributions.
• Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis): The German federal statistical office and the umbrella agency of the Statistischer Verbund in which Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg participates. Directly comparable in function (official statistics production for Germany) but operates at the federal level with broader scope and a wider portfolio of publications, GENESIS-Online federal database, and methodological leadership.

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Weaknesses4 records

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Key risks5 records

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