Number of medical practitioners with specialization registered with the medical associations, absolute, per 100,000 inhabitants and inhabitants per medical practitioner. Classification: years, region, age, sex, specialist title, field of activity ^Info

Specialization	Year (descending)
	1979	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Specialization total (incl. without specialization)	. 4)	297,803	335,348	369,319	400,562	439,090	485,818	496,240	506,014	515,640	526,146	536,933 2)	548,272 1)	... 3)
General practice	. 4)	30,863	37,341	45,937	54,816	56,350	58,649	59,292	59,807	60,510	61,370	62,124	63,063	63,944
Anaesthesiology	. 4)	10,140	12,493	16,827	20,283	24,003	28,290	29,191	30,203	31,135	32,128	32,927	33,733	34,387
Anatomy	. 4)	31	80	171	180	179	195	197	198	195	197	188	187	185
Occupational medicine	. 4)	2,638	2,915	3,521	3,939	4,307	4,804	4,928	5,070	5,229	5,371	5,482	5,657	5,831
Ophtholmology	. 4)	6,352	7,201	7,980	8,613	9,274	9,983	10,160	10,328	10,527	10,720	10,862	11,055	11,214
Biochemistry	. 4)	62	85	115	104	102	97	96	94	93	91	94	91	87
Surgery	. 4)	21,632	24,524	29,469	34,640	39,708	44,897	46,033	47,290	48,354	49,400	50,456	51,604	52,558
Gynaecology and obstetrics	. 4)	13,903	15,789	18,223	20,504	22,623	24,701	25,142	25,515	25,889	26,261	26,591	26,984	27,324
Otorhinolaryngology	. 4)	5,241	5,891	6,607	7,203	7,719	8,332	8,421	8,529	8,620	8,723	8,777	8,889	9,021
Skin and venerel diseases	. 4)	4,358	5,021	5,854	6,631	7,197	7,745	7,891	7,983	8,128	8,231	8,339	8,518	8,686
Human genetics	. 4)	14	75	190	249	323	392	405	430	435	453	464	484	498
Hygiene and environment medicine	. 4)	395	417	431	423	441	434	440	445	450	460	468	476	477
Internal medicine	. 4)	35,221	39,117	45,350	51,755	58,289	66,403	68,135	69,846	71,700	73,589	75,356	77,297	78,805
Pediatrics	. 4)	12,187	13,386	14,851	16,475	18,515	20,613	21,063	21,455	21,857	22,313	22,692	23,125	23,582
Pediatric psychiatry and       psychotherapy	. 4)	603	781	1,192	1,576	2,067	2,629	2,746	2,889	2,994	3,096	3,197	3,306	3,425
Laboratory medicine	. 4)	1,031	1,149	1,223	1,351	1,449	1,544	1,571	1,585	1,607	1,618	1,645	1,672	1,687
Microbiology, virolgy,       epidemiology of infectious diseases	. 4)	547	644	813	921	1,007	1,097	1,109	1,143	1,149	1,140	1,159	1,162	1,173
Oral and maxillofacial surgery	. 4)	783	1,030	1,310	1,603	1,845	2,052	2,103	2,150	2,194	2,239	2,287	2,321	2,379
Neurology Info	. 4)	7,543	7,793	6,750	6,283	5,947	5,506	5,410	5,311	5,191	5,083	4,970	4,855	4,692
Neurosurgery	. 4)	591	797	1,071	1,476	1,849	2,369	2,487	2,593	2,713	2,810	2,926	3,018	3,084
Neurology	. 4)	1,142	1,675	2,489	4,000	5,361	7,106	7,516	7,918	8,344	8,763	9,217	9,725	10,236
Nuclear medicine	. 4)	495	672	976	1,192	1,364	1,514	1,549	1,574	1,598	1,610	1,624	1,658	1,673
Public health system	. 4)	914	1,178	1,475	1,552	1,582	1,602	1,600	1,602	1,617	1,617	1,613	1,611	1,641
Pathology	. 4)	1,285	1,469	1,689	1,899	2,121	2,312	2,354	2,413	2,441	2,488	2,517	2,553	2,587
Pharmacology	. 4)	546	610	682	733	763	783	771	756	743	733	727	720	706
Physical and rehabilitation       medicine	. 4)	305	565	1,805	2,051	2,254	2,538	2,587	2,616	2,654	2,697	2,726	2,752	2,771
Physiology	. 4)	124	142	162	171	175	186	186	191	186	178	179	174	174
Psychiatry and psychotherapy	. 4)	1,760	2,842	5,145	7,505	9,629	11,622	12,052	12,444	12,850	13,282	13,711	14,218	14,597
Psychosomatical medicine and       psychotherapy	. 4)	51	533	3,679	4,196	4,637	5,110	5,183	5,248	5,312	5,357	5,433	5,520	5,592
Radiology	. 4)	5,412	5,969	7,356	8,483	9,487	10,747	11,101	11,465	11,761	12,121	12,425	12,776	13,107
Forensic medicine	. 4)	244	276	286	311	321	343	346	358	361	372	374	401	409
Radiotherapy	. 4)	116	292	646	915	1,185	1,442	1,505	1,580	1,642	1,692	1,760	1,824	1,879
Transfusion medicine	. 4)	114	216	506	629	708	795	808	806	811	821	816	819	821
Urology	. 4)	3,633	4,263	5,154	5,969	6,751	7,492	7,656	7,805	7,974	8,157	8,330	8,489	8,676
Other fields Info	. 4)	604	762	606	580	551	539	516	515	500	484	472	460	444
Without specialization	. 4)	126,923	137,355	128,778	121,351	129,007	140,955	143,690	145,859	147,876	150,481	154,005	157,075	...

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Comment(s)

• The specializations are in accordance with the Further Qualification Ordinance ("(Muster-)Weiterbildungsordnung)" of the Federal Medical Council from 2003, as far as they are included there. Old descriptions, which are not included in this version, were, if possible, assigned to descriptions in this version.
• ¹⁾ Due to newly included specializations (changes in the Further Qualification Ordinances, (Muster)Weiterbildungsordnungen since 2018), there is a deviation of 31 cases, which could not yet be categorized.
• ²⁾ Due to newly included specializations (changes in the Further Qualification Ordinances, (Muster)Weiterbildungsordnungen since 2018), there is a deviation of 7 cases, which could not yet be categorized.
• ³⁾ Due to newly included specializations (changes in the Further Qualification Ordinances, (Muster)Weiterbildungsordnungen> since 2018), there is a deviation of cases, which could not yet be categorized. The number will be supplied later.
• ⁴⁾ Up to and including 1990 data are only available for the Old Länder.

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• The table was extended by the year 2022 on 27 Jul 2023.
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Links

• Information concerning Population on December, 31 (census 1987, 1990) .
• Information concerning Population on December, 31 (census 2011) .
• Information concerning Medical practitioners with additional postgraduate qualification, German Medical Association .
• Information concerning Medical practitioners with subspecialization, German Medical Association .
• Information concerning Medical practitioners, foreign-national, registered by the medical associations .

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