Persons in need of care (number, per 100,000 inhabitants, in percent). Classification: years, region, age, sex, level of nursing care, kind of care

Kind of care	Year (descending)
	1999	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009 Info	2011	2013	2015 Info
All kinds of care	2,016,091	2,039,780	2,076,935	2,128,550	2,246,829	2,338,252 1) 2)	2,501,441	2,626,206	2,860,293
Outpatient care Info	415,289	434,679	450,126	471,543	504,232	555,198 1)	576,264	615,846	692,273
Inpatient care	562,762	591,901	623,182	657,516	686,082	717,490 1)	743,120	764,431	783,416
Permanent care for full-time inpatients	554,217	582,258	612,183	644,165	671,080	699,672 1)	723,451	743,430	759,204
Short-term inpatient care	8,545	9,643	10,999	13,351	15,002	17,819 1)	19,669	21,001	24,212
Care allowance Info	1,027,591	1,000,736	986,520	980,425	1,033,286	1,065,564 1)	1,182,057	1,245,929	1,384,604
informative: semi-residential care	10,449	12,464	17,107	19,066	23,229	31,399 1) 2)	43,800	57,216	73,886
informative: semi-residential day care	10,276	12,409	17,078	19,048	23,196	31,374 1) 2)	43,782	57,173	73,844
informative: semi-residential night care	173	55	29	18	33	24 1) 2)	18	43	42

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Region	Germany	Germany Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg Western Pomerania Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia
Age	All age-groups	All age-groups Under 5 years 5 to under 10 years 10 to under 15 years 15 to under 20 years 20 to under 25 years 25 to under 30 years 30 to under 35 years 35 to under 40 years 40 to under 45 years 45 to under 50 years 50 to under 55 years 55 to under 60 years 60 to under 65 years 65 to under 70 years 70 to under 75 years 75 to under 80 years 80 to under 85 years 85 to under 90 years 90 years and older 90 to under 95 years 95 years and older
Sex	All sexes	All sexes Male Female
Level of nursing care	Nursing care levels total	Nursing care levels total Nursing care level I Nursing care level II Nursing care level III including cases of hardship of nursing care level III Not yet assigned a level of nursing care informative: persons without level of nursing care with significantly limited ability to cope with everyday life
Presentation	Persons in need of care absolute	Persons in need of care absolute Persons in need of care per 100,000 inhabitants Persons in need of care in percent

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Source(s)/Contact

• Nursing care statistics, Federal Statistical Office, Branch Bonn (more information on 
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Comment(s)

• The reference date of the data procurement for the outpatient and inpatient nursing care facilities is December 15, for the recipients of nursing care allowance it is December 31.
• December 31st2011:
  The comparability of the data on recipients of care allowance according to Section 37 SGB XI to previous years is limited - the increase is shown to be too high in the national average. The overall increase in those requiring care is therefore overstated. This information is based on data supplied by the nursing care insurance funds.
• Recipients of care allowance, who also receive outpatient care are included in the outpatient care.
• ¹⁾ At the reporting date for the nursing care statistics 2009 there were no processed data from the statistics of nursing care facilities available for Bremen. However, to produce a complete federal result, the results for Bremen were estimated: To the sum of the other 15 federal states about one percent was added (separately calculated for the outpatient and the inpatient field). The factor is the share of Bremen of the German result from 2007.
  For Bremen, the data for 2009 were subsequently recorded, but the result for Germany was not modified. So, the data 2009 for Germany still only includes the estimated results for Bremen.
• ²⁾ Because of the reform of the nursing care insurance in summer 2008 the incentive to receive services of the partly inpatient care in addition to the nursing care financial benefits and/or outpatient non-cash benefits has significantly risen. Cause for this is especially, that the maximum total claim from the combination of services of the day and night care with outpatient non-cash benefits or the nursing care financial benefits has risen to 1.5 times the previous amount by the reform. If, for example, 50 percent of the services of the day and night care are used, now in addition there is a 100 percent claim of nursing care financial benefits or a nursing non-cash benefit. (Previously the nursing care financial benefit or the outpatient non-cash benefit was considered as benefit maximum limit.)
  Starting with the survey 2009, for the determination of the total number of persons in need of care, those persons, who are attended to partly inpatient in facilities, are no longer added. These persons usually also receive nursing care financial benefits and/or outpatient non-cash benefits and are therefore already included in the total number of persons in need of care. Until 2008 double counting may have occurred regarding the number of persons in need of care, as far as recipients of day respectively night care also received outpatient care or nursing care financial benefits.
  With the modified determination of the total number of persons in need of care the temporal comparability of the total number of persons in need of care in 2009 with the previous surveys is somewhat limited. The related dampening effect on the rate of change in the nursing care statistics 2009 probably accounts for one percentage point in the federal average. The effect refers only to the total number and not to the temporal comparability of the single types of services.

Refresh period of data

• This table is continued in the following table:
• Persons in need of care, e.g. by region, age and sex (starting from 2017)

Links

• Information concerning Persons in need of care in inpatient nursing care facilities (starting from 2017) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care in inpatient nursing care facilities (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, outpatient nursing care (starting from 2017) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, outpatient nursing care (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care (number and quota), e.g. by region .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, e.g. by region (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Social long-term care insurance, recipients of benefits e.g. by age .
• Information concerning Social long-term care insurance, recipients of benefits e.g. by type of service
• Information concerning Population on December, 31 (census 1987, 1990) .
• Information concerning Population on December, 31 (census 2011) .

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