Overview
- The 2025 state children-and-youth health report finds about 30% of 2023 school leavers were overweight, up from roughly 10% at school entry.
- Only 43% of adolescents reported doing regular extracurricular sport at school-leaving exams, with just one in six 11- to 15-year-olds meeting WHO activity guidelines.
- Hospital admissions for mental or behavioral disorders reached 8.1% of pediatric inpatients in 2023, an increase of 1.6 percentage points since 2013.
- Screen time frequently exceeded age-based recommendations, with especially high use among children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds or with migrant parents.
- Health Minister Britta Müller advocates a health-promotion subject and more movement spaces, while the state health office develops a prevention map; the report excludes post-2023 trends such as effects of 2024 cannabis legalization.