Press release No. N 009 of 2 March 2020
WIESBADEN – The German health and nursing care system is facing a skilled labour shortage. To reduce this shortage, employers are searching also for skilled labour from abroad. In 2018 alone, the professional qualifications of 10,350 nurses from abroad were recognised in Germany. With regard to the new Skilled Immigration Act, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of qualified nursing staff was thus nearly twice as high as two years earlier (2016: 5,600).
In all of Germany, 36,400 foreign professional qualifications were recognised in 2018. The qualifications recognised were most often those of nurses (28.4%).
