The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported on Tuesday that in 2025, approximately 13.2 million outpatient emergency cases were treated in German hospitals. This figure represents a 1.3 percent increase compared to 2024 and marks the highest count since the monitoring began in 2018. Based on this, an average of about 36,100 people received emergency care in an outpatient clinic daily across Germany.
Regarding state-level distribution, the most populous states saw the highest number of emergency treatments in 2025. North Rhine-Westphalia recorded 3.4 million cases, followed by Bavaria with 1.9 million and Baden-Württemberg with 1.7 million. Conversely, Berlin and Hamburg reported the highest number of treatments per 1,000 inhabitants (221 and 212 respectively), while Schleswig-Holstein (117) and Thuringia (121) reported the fewest.
This trend follows a significant low. In 2020, the total number of outpatient emergency treatments had dropped to its lowest point at 9.4 million. Since that time, the number of cases has been increasing consistently. The drop in admissions in 2020 and 2021 was attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
