Number of medical practitioners with subspecialization registered with the medical associations. Classification: years, region, age, sex, subspecialization, field of activity ^Info

Subspecialization	Year (descending)
	1979	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Surgery	. 1)	21,632	24,524	29,469	34,640	39,708	44,897	46,033	47,290	48,354	49,400	50,456	51,609	52,578
Gynaecology and obstetrics	. 1)	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
Internal medicine	. 1)	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
Paediatrics	. 1)	12,187	13,386	14,851	16,475	18,515	20,613	21,063	21,455	21,857	22,313	22,692	23,125	23,545
Psychiatry and psychotherapy	. 1)	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
Radiology	. 1)	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

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Region	Germany	Germany Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin, up to 1990 only West-Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg Western Pomerania Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia Old Länder, up to 1991 including East-Berlin New Länder excluding East Berlin
Age	All age-groups	All age-groups Under 35 years 35 to under 40 years 40 to under 50 years 50 to under 60 years 60 to under 66 years 66 years and older
Sex	All sexes	All sexes Male Female
Field of activity	Field of activity total	Field of activity total With medical activity Outpatient In own practice Employed Inpatient In authorities/corporate bodies and others In other fields Without medical activity

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Source(s)/Contact

• Medical practitioner statistics, German Medical Association (more information on 
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Comment(s)

• Data from the reference date (December, 31) of the respective year.
• The subspecializations 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 (specialy branch descriptions), which are not included in this version, were, if possible, assigned to descriptions in this version.
• ¹⁾ Up to and including 1990 data are only available for the Old Länder.

Refresh period of data

• The table was extended by the year 2022 on 23 Jun 2023.
  Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.

Links

• Information concerning Medical practitioners with additional postgraduate qualification, German Medical Association .
• Information concerning Medical practitioners, foreign-national, registered by the medical associations .

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