1 July 2022
Roughly 23,700 prostitutes registered with authorities at the end of 2021
At the end of 2021, approximately 23,700 prostitutes had valid registrations with the authorities in Germany in accordance with the Prostitute Protection Act (ProstSchG). This was a decrease of 5% compared with a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that at the end of 2021, as in the preceding year, 2,290 prostitution businesses had been granted a permit or had a provisional permit under the Act, which entered into force on 1 July 2017. The statistics contain information on registrations and permits under the provisions of the Prostitute Protection Act. Non-registered businesses and prostitutes are not recorded in the statistics.
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