In 2020, there were 3,006 hospitals in Germany. The number of hospitals in Germany has been declining almost year-on-year since the year 2000, when there were over 3.6 thousand hospitals in Germany.
Healthcare indicators
Expenditure on health in Germany amounted to a 12.8 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020. This share has been gradually increasing since 2000. In comparison to other European countries, this ranked Germany first in terms of health expenditure, followed by France , which spent 12.2 percent of its’ GDP on healthcare in this year and the United Kingdom which spent 12 percent.
Opinion of healthcare in the country
The quality of German healthcare is generally regarded as good by the German population. In a survey of nine European countries, 60 percent of German respondents rated the quality of their accessible healthcare as good or very good, while only ten percent regarded it as poor or very poor. Although, 55 percent of those surveyed trust the quality of the treatment offered in Germany, which was lower than the trust in some other western European countries.
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