Inability to work: days and cases of inability to work of the members of the Statutory Health Insurance (number and days per case). Classification: years, Germany, sex, type of statutory health insurance organization, group of people insured

Indicators of inability to work	Year (descending)
	1993	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2020	2021	2022
Cases of inability to work	36,861,877	38,551,812	37,185,093	29,501,250	33,568,351	42,344,401	39,277,115	39,708,090	62,964,154
Days of inability to work	562,869,266	606,375,391	511,447,772	386,733,850	440,029,592	538,398,760	639,479,920	637,248,588	799,568,410
Days of inability to work per case of inability to work	15.27	15.73	13.75	13.11	13.11	12.71	16.28	16.05	12.70

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Sex	All sexes	All sexes Male Female
Type of statutory health insurance organization	Statutory health insurance institutions total	Statutory health insurance institutions total Local statutory health insurance (AOK) Company health insurance (BKK) Trade guild health insurance (IKK) Agricultural health insurance (LKK - landwirtschaftliche Krankenkassen) Miners' railway sea health insurance ("Knappschaft-Bahn-See") Federal body of miners (BKn - Bundesknappschaft) Marine health insurance (SeeKK - See-Krankenkasse) Association of Substitute Health Insurance Companies (VdEK - Verband der Ersatzkassen) Substitute health insurance for manual wage earners (EKArb - Ersatzkasse für Arbeiter) Substitute health insurance for salaried employees (EKAng - Ersatzkassen für Angestellte)
Group of people insured	Members of the Statutory Health Insurance excluding pensioners (AKV- general health insurance)	Members of the Statutory Health Insurance excluding pensioners (AKV- general health insurance) Persons obligatorily insured in the Statutory Health Insurance Employees obligatorily insured in the Statutory Health Insurance without pensioners, students, practical trainees and persons in early retirement Persons obligatorily insured in the Statutory Health Insurance who are out of work Persons obligatorily insured in the Statutory Health Insurance with agricultural businesses, minors, the disabled and self-employed artists/publicists Voluntary GKV-members

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Source(s)/Contact

• KG 2 statistics, Federal Ministry of Health (more information on 
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• KM 1/13-statistics, Federal Ministry of Health (more information on 
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Definition(s)

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Comment(s)

• The group of peope obligatorily insured in the Statutory Health Insurance who are out of work covers recipients of unemployment benefit I ("Arbeitslosengeld I"), unemployment benefit II ("Arbeitslosengeld II") and maintenance payments (until including 2004 recipients of unemployment assistance ("Arbeitslosenhilfe") or maintenance ("Unterhaltsgeld") and recipients of unemployment subsidy ("Arbeitslosenbeihilfe").
• The trade guild health insurance also have health insurance extensions in the new German Länder; in the earlier territory of the Federal Republic of Germany there are no extensions to the trade guild health insurances.
• The company health insurances also include those of the German Rail, the German Postal System, the Federal Ministry of Transport and the health insurance extensions, in the new German Länder; in the earlier territory of the Federal Republic of Germany there are no extensions to the company health insurances.
• Members of the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) are persons insured in the SHI excluding jointly insured family members.

Refresh period of data

• The table was extended by the year 2022 on 25 Sep 2023.
  Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.

Links

• Explanations concerning Indicators on inability to work

The Federal Health Monitoring System 19. Apr 2024