Persons in need of care (number and quota). Classification: years, region, age, sex

Region	Persons in need of care
	Number of persons in need of care	Quota of care Info	Percentage of age- groups Info
Germany Info	4,961,146	6.0	100.0
Baden-Wurttemberg	540,401	4.9	100.0
Bavaria	578,147	4.4	100.0
Berlin	185,528	5.0	100.0
Brandenburg	184,646	7.3	100.0
Bremen	42,048	6.2	100.0
Hamburg	90,288	4.9	100.0
Hesse	368,396	5.9	100.0
Mecklenburg Western Pomerania	122,866	7.6	100.0
Lower Saxony	542,904	6.8	100.0
North Rhine-Westphalia	1,191,981	6.6	100.0
Rhineland-Palatinate	241,364	5.9	100.0
Saarland	70,556	7.2	100.0
Saxony	310,674	7.7	100.0
Saxony Anhalt	166,348	7.7	100.0
Schleswig-Holstein	158,546	5.4	100.0
Thuringia	166,453	7.9	100.0
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Age	All age-groups	All age-groups under 75 years 75 to under 85 years 85 to under 90 years 90 years and older
Sex	All sexes	All sexes Male Female

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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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Definition(s)

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Comment(s)

• 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".
• Nursing care statistics on December the 15.
• Because of the reform of the nursing care insurance in summer 2008 the incentive to receive services of the partly inpatient care in addition to the nursing care financial benefits and/or outpatient non-cash benefits has significantly risen. Cause for this is especially, that the maximum total claim from the combination of services of the day and night care with outpatient non-cash benefits or the nursing care financial benefits has risen to 1.5 times the previous amount by the reform. If, for example, 50 percent of the services of the day and night care are used, now in addition there is a 100 percent claim of nursing care financial benefits or a nursing non-cash benefit. (Previously the nursing care financial benefit or the outpatient non-cash benefit was considered as benefit maximum limit.)
  Starting with the survey 2009, for the determination of the total number of persons in need of care, those persons, who are attended to partly inpatient in facilities, are no longer added. These persons usually also receive nursing care financial benefits and/or outpatient non-cash benefits and are therefore already included in the total number of persons in need of care. Until 2008 double counting may have occurred regarding the number of persons in need of care, as far as recipients of day respectively night care also received outpatient care or nursing care financial benefits.
  With the modified determination of the total number of persons in need of care the temporal comparability of the total number of persons in need of care in 2009 with the previous surveys is somewhat limited. The related dampening effect on the rate of change in the nursing care statistics 2009 probably accounts for one percentage point in the federal average. The effect refers only to the total number and not to the temporal comparability of the single types of services.
• December 31st2011:
  The comparability of the data on recipients of care allowance according to Section 37 SGB XI to previous years is limited - the increase is shown to be too high in the national average. The overall increase in those requiring care is therefore overstated. This information is based on data supplied by the nursing care insurance funds.
• ¹⁾ In 2003 and 2005 the number of recipients who live abroad are separately declared.

Refresh period of data

• The table was extended by the year 2021 on 30 Mar 2023.
  Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.

Links

• Information concerning Persons in need of care in inpatient nursing care facilities (starting from 2017) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care in inpatient nursing care facilities (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, outpatient nursing care (starting from 2017) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, outpatient nursing care (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, e.g. by region, age and sex (starting from 2017) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, e.g. by region, age and sex (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Persons in need of care, e.g. by region (1999-2015) .
• Information concerning Population on December, 31 (census 2011) .

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