Doctors
Working physicians (practices, hospitals, public authorities and other sectors) per 100,000 inhabitants, 31 December, 31.12.2025
There were 490 working doctors per 100,000 inhabitants in the eastern states at the end of 2025 and 533 in the West (92% of the western rate). City states lead because their hospitals serve the surrounding region: Hamburg has 828, Berlin 708. Among the other states, Bavaria (563) is highest and Brandenburg (431) lowest.
< 497 per 100k497 per 100k563 per 100k630 per 100k696 per 100k≥ 762 per 100k
Inner-German border 1949–1990 ·16 states · 31.12.2025
Former West
533 per 100k
excl. Berlin
Former East
490 per 100k
excl. Berlin
Berlin
708 per 100k
Germany
534 per 100k
The East stands at 92% of the West's level (31.12.2025).
By state
- Hamburg828 per 100k
- Berlin708 per 100k
- Bremen624 per 100k
- Bayern563 per 100k
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern558 per 100k
- Saarland553 per 100k
- Nordrhein-Westfalen536 per 100k
- Hessen522 per 100k
- Schleswig-Holstein519 per 100k
- Baden-Württemberg511 per 100k
- Sachsen506 per 100k
- Rheinland-Pfalz503 per 100k
- Sachsen-Anhalt487 per 100k
- Thüringen483 per 100k
- Niedersachsen459 per 100k
- Brandenburg431 per 100k
31.12.2025
Notes & caveats
- Working physicians (berufstätige Ärztinnen und Ärzte) registered with the state medical chambers, in all sectors: practices, hospitals, public authorities and others. Head count, not full-time equivalents.
- Doctors are counted by the chamber they belong to, which is normally the state where they work, not where they live. City states (Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin) treat many patients from neighbouring states, which inflates their rates.
- North Rhine-Westphalia combines the two chambers Nordrhein and Westfalen-Lippe.
- Our calculation: working physicians ÷ Destatis population on 31.12.2025 × 100,000. The BÄK states one doctor per 187.4 inhabitants nationally. East = the five eastern states without Berlin.
- The Bundesärztekammer is the umbrella body of the state medical chambers (public-law bodies); this is its own register statistic, not official statistics by Destatis.
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| State | Side | 31.12.2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Saarland | west | 553 per 100k |
| Berlin | berlin | 708 per 100k |
| Brandenburg | east | 431 per 100k |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | east | 558 per 100k |
| Sachsen | east | 506 per 100k |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | east | 487 per 100k |
| Thüringen | east | 483 per 100k |
| Schleswig-Holstein | west | 519 per 100k |
| Hamburg | west | 828 per 100k |
| Niedersachsen | west | 459 per 100k |
| Bremen | west | 624 per 100k |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | west | 536 per 100k |
| Hessen | west | 522 per 100k |
| Rheinland-Pfalz | west | 503 per 100k |
| Baden-Württemberg | west | 511 per 100k |
| Bayern | west | 563 per 100k |