Overview

• General practitioners cared for an average of 1,264 people in 2024, virtually unchanged from 1,266 in 2014, according to the Federal Statistical Office.
• State disparities were stark, with the highest loads in Brandenburg (1,436), Bremen (1,369) and Lower Saxony (1,356) and the lowest in Bavaria (1,114), Hamburg (1,118) and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (1,149).
• Germany had about 66,100 GPs in 2024, up 3.4% over a decade and representing 15.1% of all practicing physicians, yet 40.8% were 60 or older and only 7.7% were under 40.
• Saxony reports roughly 2,800 GPs and 370 unfilled GP posts, with a comparatively younger cohort (about 29% aged 60+), and the KV is extending its “Praxen für Sachsen!” recruitment campaign with new videos and funding offers.
• Thuringia averaged 1,296 residents per GP and had about 110 vacant GP seats as of June 24, with the state pursuing foundation practices and subsidies to attract successors.