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Press release No. 136 of 5 April 2023 Health expenditure exceeded 474 billion euros in 2021
Health expenditure in Germany rose to 474.1 billion euros in the second Covid year of 2021. That was 5,699 euros per inhabitant. Health expenditure per capita and total health expenditure were up by 7.5% from a year earlier, which is the largest …
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Press release No. 134 of 4 April 2023 Fewer new apprenticeship contracts in long-term care in 2022
A total of 146,500 apprentices were training to become generalist nurses at the end of 2022, according to first provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). 52,300 of these apprentices had signed their apprenticeship contract in …
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Press release No. 124 of 30 March 2023 Long-term care projection: 1.8 million more people in need of long-term care expected until 2055
The number of people in need of long-term care in Germany will go up by 37% until 2055 just because the population is ageing. Their number will increase from roughly 5.0 million at the end of 2021 to approximately 6.8 million in 2055, according to …
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Press release No. 120 of 27 March 2023 Number of abortions up 9.9% in 2022
Approximately 104,000 cases of abortions were reported in Germany in 2022, which was an increase of 9.9% compared with the previous year in which the lowest level (94,600 cases) had been reached since the statistics began. According to the Federal …
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Press release No. N 009 of 15 February 2023 Nearly one third of births by Caesarean section in 2021
Roughly 237,000 women delivered by Caesarean in 2021, which means that nearly one out of three births in hospitals in Germany was by Caesarean section. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the Caesarean rate was 30.9% for the whole …
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Press release No. N 007 of 2 February 2023 World Cancer Day: record low of in-patient cancer treatments in 2021
In 2021, just under 1.44 million patients were treated for cancer in hospitals on an in-patient basis. The number of in-patient cancer treatments in the second Covid year thus fell to a record low within the last 20 years as reported by the Federal …
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Press release No. 033 of 26 January 2023 2.9% more people employed in the health sector in 2021
The number of people employed in the German healthcare system increased more significantly in the pandemic year of 2021 than in the first Covid year of 2020. A good 6.0 million people were working in the health sector at the end of 2021, according to …