Press release No. 304 of 28 June 2021
WIESBADEN – In 2020 approximately 372,000 physicians in Germany treated patients and consequently were in direct contact with patients. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that there were 4.5 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants. In 2019, there had been 4.4 physicians per 1,000 people.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables "23621 Health personell" in the GENESIS-Online database.