Number of scientific staff in selected teaching and research fields of the healthcare system at universities. Classification: years, region, age, sex, nature of practicing the profession, teaching and research field

Field of teaching and research	Year (descending)
	1992	1993	1994	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2020	2021	2022
Total	37,013	36,738	37,861	41,219	44,857	50,697	62,455	70,367	83,380	86,135	88,357
Psychology	1,842	1,907	1,943	2,122	2,396	2,740	3,588	4,506	5,433	5,703	5,786
Human medicine in general	68	99	102	37	47	226	108	328	913	1,648	1,261
Preclinical human medicine (including dental medicine)	2,916	2,918	2,955	3,127	3,234	3,527	4,030	4,279	4,473	4,341	4,496
Clinical theoretical human medicine (including dental       medicine)	5,651	5,539	5,946	6,190	6,638	7,511	9,122	10,015	12,345	12,670	13,146
Clinical practical human medicine (excluding dental       medicine)	22,136	21,785	22,355	24,779	27,479	28,782	36,065	40,042	47,108	47,610	48,869
Dental medicine (clinical practical)	1,974	1,917	1,920	2,087	1,940	1,886	1,979	1,980	2,105	2,117	2,203
Nutrion sciences and home economics	249	285	324	331	396	430	514	505	667	726	634
Pharmaceutics	1,128	1,217	1,249	1,349	1,411	1,259	1,549	1,626	1,738	1,777	1,823
Health economics	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	46	91	89	77
Health paedagogy	-	-	-	-	-	2	63	64	55	43	51
Health science/management	-	-	-	-	-	202	278	436	615	666	671
Non-medical health professions/therapies	-	-	-	-	-	12	103	199	342	344	348
Nursing science/management	-	-	-	-	-	113	192	343	441	452	498
Agronomy, forestry and nutrition sciences in general	-	-	-	-	-	160	101	225	203	228	772
Applied       biotechnology (agronomy, forestry and nutrition       sciences)	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	2	4	7	4
Health care engineering	-	-	-	-	-	25	-	9	25	22	24
Medical technology	-	-	-	-	-	80	193	230	255	252	240
Anthropology (human biology)	-	-	-	-	-	68	135	175	108	97	100
Biochemistry (for biologists)	-	-	-	-	-	366	663	505	458	450	440
Biotechnology (for biologists)	-	-	-	-	-	307	355	611	715	691	728
Genetics	-	-	-	-	-	672	782	805	870	923	915
Microbiology	-	-	-	-	-	810	1,069	1,203	1,184	1,172	1,145
Neurobiology	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	151	201	225	237
Special needs education Info	363	374	381	437	493	489	635	800	1,158	1,173	1,198
Central facilities of university hospitals (only human       medicine)	686	697	686	760	823	1,026	887	1,282	1,873	2,709	2,691

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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 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 years and older Unknown
Sex	All sexes	All sexes Male Female
Nature of practicing the profession	Academic staff in main profession	Academic staff in main profession Academic staff in ancillary profession

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Comment(s)

• Report of some of the fields of teaching and research ('Fachgebiete') is not possible prior to 2002.

Refresh period of data

• The table was extended by the year 2022 on 30 Nov 2023.
  Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.

Links

• Information concerning Passed examinations in selected fields of the healthcare system .

The Federal Health Monitoring System 24. Apr 2024