Press release No. 230 of 24 June 2020
WIESBADEN – At the end of 2019, roughly 7.9 million severely disabled people were living in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of approximately 136,000, or 1.8%, compared with the end of 2017.
The proportion of severely disabled people in the total population in Germany was 9.5%. Slightly more than half of them (50.4%) were men, 49.6% were women. People are classed as severely disabled if a pension office has determined a degree of disablement of 50 or more and handed over a valid disability pass.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables "Statistics of severely disabled people (22711)" in the GENESIS-Online database.
