
German Health System Overview
Health System Rankings
Health System Outcomes
Health System Coverage
Costs for Consumers
Health System Expenditures
Germany’s COVID-19 National Strategy
Population
Population: 83,517,000
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019: Data Booklet (ST/ESA/SER.A/424). More information here.
Population Health Coverage
Population Health Coverage (%): 100%
Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en. More information here.
German Health System Expenditures
Cost as Portion of GDP (%): 11.1%
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Expenditure Per Capita (US$): $4,714
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Annual Out of Pocket Spending Per Capita (US$): $629
Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Health expenditure series. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed Jan. 10, 2020. More information here.
Health System Outcomes
Care Ranking: 19
Source: GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators. “Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.” Lancet (London, England) vol. 392,10159 (2018): 2091-2138. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32281-5. More information here.
Life Expectancy: 80.9 Years
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Infant Mortality (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births): 3
Source: UNICEF (2019). The State of the World’s Children 2019. Children, Food and Nutrition: Growing well in a changing world. UNICEF, New York. More information here.
Personnel
Doctors Per 10,000 Population: 42.1
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Nurses Per 10,000 Population: 132
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More information here.
Useful Links
Federal Ministry of Health: https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/en.html
Federal Joint Committee: https://www.g-ba.de/english/
Federal Centre for Health Education: https://www.bzga.de/home/bzga/
Expat Guide to Healthcare in Germany: https://www.expatica.com/de/healthcare/
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Page last updated Oct. 12, 2021 by Doug McVay, Editor.