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Many doctors will retire in the coming years
A good 31 percent of human and dental physicians are 55 years or older. Photo
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According to statisticians, many doctors will hang up their coats in the coming years. Almost a third of medical and dental practitioners are 55 years old or older.
According to statisticians, the number of foreign doctors has increased significantly over the past ten years. In 2023, it was 62,000, or just over twelve percent. Ten years earlier, it was 29,000, or seven percent. The history of immigration shows that many doctors come to Germany from abroad. Last year, 115,000 immigrant doctors worked in medicine, almost a quarter of all doctors. Some of them now have German citizenship.
According to the Federal Office, the number of new students in human medicine has risen steadily in recent years. In the winter semester of 2022/2023, 14,300 people began studying human medicine. In dentistry, the numbers remained largely constant. In the same winter semester, the number of new students was 1,900, as it was ten years earlier.