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

Kind of care	Presentation
	Persons in need of care absolute	Persons in need of care per 100,000 inhabitants	Persons in need of care in percent
Recipients of benefits total	4,961,146	5,960	100.00
Outpatient care Info	1,046,798	1,258	21.10
Inpatient care	793,461	953	15.99
Permanent care for full-time inpatients	771,531	927	15.55
Short-term inpatient care	21,930	26	0.44
Care allowance Info	2,553,921	3,068	51.48
with care degree 1 and exclusively benefits by state law respectively       without benefits Info	565,294	679	11.39
with care degree 1 and partly inpatient care	1,672	2	0.03
informative: partly inpatient care (degree 2-5) Info	135,837	163	2.74

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Year	2021	2021 2019 2017
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	Care degrees total	Care degrees total Care degree 1 Care degree 2 Care degree 3 Care degree 4 Care degree 5 Not yet assigned to a care degree

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Source(s)/Contact

• Nursing care statistics, Federal Statistical Office, Branch Bonn (more information on 
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• Update of the state of the population, Federal Statistical Office (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.
• 2017: Female including "without specification" (according to the Personal Status Act). Starting from 2019: Persons with "diverse" or "without specification" (sex according to § 22(3) PStG "Personal Staus Act") are randomly distributed to "male" or "female".

Refresh period of data

• The table was extended by the year 2021 on 14 Mar 2023.
  Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.

The Federal Health Monitoring System 26. Apr 2024