Press release No. 259 of 22 June 2022
WIESBADEN – At the end of 2021, approximately 7.8 million severely disabled people were living in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decrease of roughly 108,000, or 1.4%, compared with the end of 2019. The decline is due to a comprehensive revision of administrative data in Niedersachsen, as the result of which the reported number of severely disabled people decreased by 121,000. 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. The percentage of severely disabled people in the total population in Germany stood at 9.4% at the end of 2021. Men accounted for 50.3% of severely disabled people, women for 49.7%.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables "Statistics of severely disabled people (22711)" in the GENESIS-Online database.
