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Date: November 7, 2024 Patients discharged from hospital after inpatient treatment
Tables on the subject: Patients discharged from hospital after inpatient treatment (including deaths and hour cases)
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Date: November 7, 2024 Patients discharged from prevention and rehabilitation facility after inpatient treatment
Tables on the subject: Patients discharged from prevention and rehabilitation facility after inpatient treatment (including deaths and hour cases)
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Date: August 19, 2024 Causes of death by chapters of the ICD-10 and sex
Tables on the subject: Number of deaths by chapters of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (10th Revision) and by sex 2023
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Date: September 27, 2024 Hospital deliveries in Germany from 1991 to 2023
Tables on the subject: Hospital deliveries in Germany from 1991 to 2023
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Date: July 19, 2024 Severely disabled people by sex, age and severe-disability rate
Tables on the subject: Severely disabled people
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Press release No. 259 of 22 June 2022 7.8 million severely disabled people living in Germany
...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%....
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Press release No. 563 of 9 December 2021 Coronavirus pandemic has led to excess mortality in Germany
...The coronavirus waves have led to excess mortality in Germany. This has been ascertained by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) based on an evaluation of the death statistics in the course of the pandemic. This has also led to excess death figures over the entire period of the pandemic so far. ...
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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 of Germany. It is slightly higher than in 2020 (29.7%). The proportion of such surgical interventions doubled over the last 30 years. 15.3% of women gave birth by Caesarean section in 1991. ...
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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. 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 increase since calculations started in 1992. ...
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Press release No. 544 of 16 December 2022 Causes of death statistics 2021: 7% of all deaths directly due to Covid-19
...A total of 71,331 people died in Germany of Covid-19 as the underlying cause of death in 2021, which was an increase by 79% year on year (2020: 39,758). Covid-19 thus was the decisive cause of death in 7.0% of the cases....
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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 the results provided by the long-term care projection of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). ...
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Press release No. 539 of 15 December 2022 Increase of 16.7% in abortions in the 3rd quarter of 2022 compared with the same quarter a year earlier
...In the third quarter of 2022, approximately 26,500 abortions were reported in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of abortions rose by 16.7% in the third quarter of 2022 compared with the third quarter of 2021. The number of abortions rose significantly in the first three quarters of 2022, following decreases in 2021 (-5.4% on 2020) and in 2020 (-0.9% on 2019). ...
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Press release No. 554 of 21 December 2022 5 million people in need of long-term care at the end of 2021
In December 2021, 4.96 million people in Germany were in need of long-term care as defined by the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (German Social Code, Book XI). The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of people in need of …
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Press release No. 304 of 28 June 2021 Physician density in 2020: 4.5 physicians per 1,000 people in Germany
...Physician density in Germany remains high compared with other countries...
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Press release No. N 064 of 2 November 2022 Number of in-patient treatments for testicular cancer down by 40% within 20 years
...The number of in-patient treatments for testicular cancer fell by 40% within 20 years. Roughly 10,900 boys and men all over Germany were treated in hospital for testicular cancer in 2020. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) to coincide with Men’s World Day, a day of action on 3 November focusing on men’s health. 20 years earlier, 18,100 patients were hospitalised with a diagnosis of testicular cancer. ...
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Press release No. 384 of 13 September 2022 Abortions in the 2nd quarter of 2022 up 11.5% on the same quarter a year earlier
...In the second quarter of 2022, approximately 25,600 abortions were reported in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of abortions increased by 11.5% in the second quarter of 2022 compared with the second quarter of 2021. The number of abortions rose significantly in the first two quarters of 2022, following decreases in 2021 (-5.4% on 2020) and in 2020 (-0.9% on 2019). ...
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Press release No. N 010 of 3 February 2021 A quarter of all deaths in Germany caused by cancer in 2019
In 2019, roughly 231,000 people died from cancer in Germany: 125,000 men and 106,000 women. To coincide with the World Cancer Day, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that a quarter of all deaths was caused by cancer. This proportion …
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Press release No. N 022 of 26 April 2022 One third of births in 2020 by Caesarean section
...Schleswig-Holstein had the highest proportion of deliveries by Caesarean section, Berlin the lowest Rate of Caesarean deliveries almost doubled in Germany since 1991 WIESBADEN – Roughly 220,700 women delivered by Caesarean section in 2020, 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 29.7% for the whole of Germany. ...
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Press release No. N 033 of 30 May 2022 Number of women dying of lung and bronchial cancer significantly higher than 20 years ago
...A total of 75,500 deaths due to smoking-specific illnesses in 2020 375,200 patients treated in hospital because of relevant diagnoses Every adult in Germany consumed an average of 1,033 cigarettes in 2021 WIESBADEN – Approximately 75,500 people died of smoking-specific illnesses in Germany in 2020. 46,100 of these cases were due to lung, bronchial, laryngeal or tracheal cancer and 29,400 to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). ...
