The following are some of the facts in numbers that make the German Healthcare Market:

• 82 million inhabitants, of which approximately 90% are publicly insured, 10% privately insured and self-pay patients.
• 220 public insurances
• 16 German Federal States, each of which is responsible fort he public having access to healthcare provision, eeach having its own independent legislation.
• 17 chambers of physicians, pharmacists, dentistst and psychologists, each having its own empowerment for regulations.
• 150 billion Euros expenditure on public healthcare provision (applicable for 90% of population)
• 100 billion Euros with inceasing tendency on private and self-payed health services
• Expenditures on Healthcare amounts to approximately 11,5 % of the gross domestic product (10,2% in 1992)

The Professional Healthcare Market in approximate numbers (2007):

• 120,000 physicians in ambulatory care (declining tendency)
• 60,000 dentists (declining tendency)
• 60,000 pharmacists (declining tendency)
• 2,000 hospitals (decling tendency)
• 9,100 nursing facilities (increasing tendency)