Disabled people

22 June 2022 7.8 million severely disabled people living in Germany

At the end of 2021, approximately 7.8 million severely disabled people were living in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decrease of roughly 108,000, or 1.4%, compared with the end of 2019. The decline is due to a comprehensive revision of administrative data in Niedersachsen, as the result of which the reported number of severely disabled people decreased by 121,000. People are classed as severely disabled if a pension office has determined a degree of disablement of 50 or more and handed over a valid disability pass. The percentage of severely disabled people in the total population in Germany stood at 9.4% at the end of 2021. Men accounted for 50.3% of severely disabled people, women for 49.7%.

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