GERMANY

ANNUAL
MEMBERSHIP
CENSUS 2022
 GERMANY│PHYSIOTHERAPIST NUMBERS

Physiotherapists Physiotherapists in Physiotherapists

in the country/territory World Physiotherapy in the world
Europe region 2,000,000
250,000
900,000 35%
1,600,000
35% 34%
800,000
200,000
700,000 43% 43% 45% 31%
11% 11% 11% 11% 1,200,000
600,000
150,000 35%
500,000

501,215
239,068
400,000 800,000
100,000
300,000
22,030
21,452

21,430

21,502

1,917,615
1,900,584
1,596,568

1,984,739

660,794*
200,000 400,000

343,630
807,460

834,038
362,149
203,000

365,015
687,881
203,000

50,000
197,000

199,000

810,480

658,204

687,623
100,000

0 0 0
2019 2020 2021 2022 2019 2020 2021 2022 2019 2020 2021 2022
Members in MO
Members in MOs Number of physiotherapists Members of Physiotherapists globally
Total physiotherapists in country/territory in the region in the region MOs globally

% shows the percentage of physiotherapists that are members of a World Physiotherapy member organisation
The data in this page includes data from all of World Physiotherapy’s 125 member organisations. Some data has also been collated from other sources available to World Physiotherapy.
*This decrease is due to an internal audit of the number of individual members in the Indian Association of Physiotherapists. This changed their membership numbers from 48,397 in 2021 to 14,735 in 2022. 2
GERMANY│GENDER

GLOBALLY
67%
of physiotherapists in the German Association for
Physiotherapy are female

72%
of physiotherapists in Germany are female 60% 63%
EUROPE REGION
66% of the individual members
of the
of physiotherapists in member organisations in the of World Physiotherapy
global physiotherapy
Europe region are female member organisations
workforce are female
are female
66%
of physiotherapists in the in the Europe region are
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GERMANY│PRACTISING PHYSIOTHERAPISTS
NUMBER OF PRACTISING PHYSIOTHERAPISTS PER 10,000 POPULATION

Germany Europe region

30 16
14
25
12
20
10
15 8
6
10
4
5
2
0 0
2019 2020 2021 2022 2019 2020 2021 2022

24.42
practising physiotherapists per
10,000 population in your
country/territory in 2022
13.18
is the average number of
practising physiotherapists per
10,000 population in the World
Physiotherapy Europe region
in 2022

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GERMANY│ENTRY LEVEL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES
NUMBER OF ENTRY LEVEL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES PER 5,000,000 POPULATION

Germany Europe region

20 4.5
18 4
16 3.5
14 3
12
2.5
10
2
8
1.5
6
4 1
2 0.5
0 0
2019 2020 2021 2022 2020 2021 2022

16.06 7.72
is the average number of entry
entry level education
level education programmes per
programmes in your
5 million population in the World
country/territory per
Physiotherapy Europe region
5 million population in 2022
in 2022
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GERMANY│PHYSIOTHERAPY PRACTICE
Special interest There are support personnel who work
groups are recognised Provide CPD for members with physiotherapists

Yes 83% Yes No 46%

Europe
85% 76%

Germany Europe Germany Europe Germany Europe

Global Global 56% Global

76% 79%

Membership is required to practice Have postgraduate programmes Have access to PhD programmes

22%
No Yes Yes
90% 71%

Germany Europe Germany Europe Germany Europe

14%
Global Global 47% Global
74%

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GLOBAL│RESPONSE TO SURVEY

North America South America

Africa region Asia Western Pacific region Europe region
Caribbean region region
Benin Zambia Afghanistan Singapore Albania Latvia Bahamas Argentina
Cameroon Zimbabwe Australia Sri Lanka Austria Lebanon Barbados Brazil
Congo (Democratic
Bangladesh Taiwan Belgium Liechtenstein Bermuda Chile
Republic)
Bosnia and
Eswatini Bhutan Thailand Lithuania Canada Colombia
Herzegovina
United Arab Dominican
Ethiopia Cambodia Bulgaria Luxembourg Costa Rica
Emirates Republic
Ghana Fiji Vietnam Croatia Malta Guyana Ecuador
Responses to the
annual census
Ivory Coast Hong Kong Yemen Czech Republic Montenegro Haiti Mexico
were received from
Kenya India Denmark Netherlands Jamaica Peru
World
Madagascar Indonesia Estonia Norway Panama Uruguay
Physiotherapy
Malawi Japan Finland Palestine Puerto Rico Venezuela
member
Mauritius Korea (Republic of) France Poland St Lucia organisations in
Morocco Kuwait Georgia Portugal Suriname these countries/
Trinidad and territories in 2022.
Namibia Macau Germany Romania
Tobago
Niger Malaysia Greece Slovakia United States
Nigeria Mongolia Hungary Slovenia
Rwanda Myanmar Iceland Spain
Senegal Nepal Ireland Sweden
South Africa New Zealand Israel Switzerland
Tanzania Pakistan Italy Ukraine
Togo Philippines Jordan United Kingdom
Uganda Saudi Arabia Kosovo

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• The data in this report is based on responses to the

annual membership census (AMC) sent to World
Physiotherapy’s member organisations.

• The AMC was sent to 125 member organisations, of

which 116 responded, representing a 92.8% response
rate. This is consistent with previous years’ response
rates and demonstrates strong engagement between
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