Press release No. N 026 of 11 May 2022
- Just under 486,100 persons employed in nursing care in hospitals on 31 December 2020
- 954,000 nursing staff worked in care homes and home care services in 2019 – almost two thirds in part-time
- Earnings of nurses in 2021 roughly one third higher than in 2011
Number of recognised foreign professional qualifications still at high level
WIESBADEN – The demand for labour in nursing care has been growing for years. Since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, the skilled labour shortage and the working conditions in nursing care have come even more into focus. To mark International Nurses Day on 12 May, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that just under 486,100 people worked in hospital nursing care in Germany on 31 December 2020. This was an increase of 18% compared with ten years earlier. The majority of them (434,400 nurses and auxiliary staff or 89%) had undergone specific nursing training. Almost half (49%) of the people employed in nursing care worked part-time – a total of 238,000 persons.
