Employees in pharmacies (number). Classification: years, region, sex, designation of profession, type of pharmacy

Designation of profession	Year (descending)
	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2020	2021	2022
Total	.	132,156	142,075	145,058	154,076	161,406	168,465	167,819	167,605
Pharmacists	.	44,696	47,907	48,058	50,604	52,568	55,673	56,059	56,382
Assistant       pharmacist(s), assistant(s), pharmaceutical       technicians (PTA)	.	45,552	53,129	59,275	66,821	74,234	78,484	77,797	77,389
Assistant workers, pharmaceutical business employees       (PKA), others	.	41,908	41,039	37,725	36,651	34,604	34,308	33,963	33,834

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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 Former federal territory Former federal territory and East Berlin New Länder excluding East Berlin
Sex	All sexes	All sexes Male Female
Types of pharmacy	Pharmacies total	Pharmacies total Publicly accessible pharmacies Hospital pharmacies

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Source(s)/Contact

• Pharmacy and staff statistics, Federal Union of German Associations of Pharmacists (more information on 
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Comment(s)

• Data from the reference date (December, 31) of the respective year. In the reported year 2004 the figures refer to the status of May 2005.
• Deviations in the sums result from rounding off the figures.

Refresh period of data

• The table was extended by the year 2022 on 17 Oct 2023.
  Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.

Links

• Information concerning Pharmacists in publicly accessible pharmacies per 100,000 inhabitants .

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The Federal Health Monitoring System 19. Apr 2024