Germany statutory long-term care inpatient care costs
Germany statutory long-term care inpatient care costs stood at 26,229.08 EUR million in 2025, according to Deutsche Bundesbank. It is one of the indicators in the Public finances (annual) table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1996 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Public finances (annual) table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheme, expenditure, total | 74,112.33 | 68,184.09 | 59,178.36 | 60,099.82 | 53,903.15 | 49,283.6 | 44,008.4 | 41,264.85 | 38,861.94 | 30,935.5 | |
| Scheme, expenditure, inpatient care, total | 26,229.08 | 24,769.76 | 22,512.66 | 20,542 | 16,511.31 | 16,458.79 | 16,717.01 | 16,216.32 | 16,033.97 | 13,538.66 | |
| Scheme, expenditure, nursing benefit | 20,864.38 | 18,475.44 | 16,035 | 14,872.25 | 13,865.17 | 12,785.68 | 11,688.6 | 10,808.81 | 10,009.55 | 6,673.39 |
Understanding germany statutory long-term care inpatient care costs
This indicator focuses solely on fully residential institutional care funded by the public system. It captures the statutory scheme's financial obligations toward nursing homes and specialized care facilities where beneficiaries permanently reside. Unlike the mobile services or cash allowances categorized under outpatient branches, this aggregate reflects the localized costs of full-time institutionalization. The figure tracks only the publicly mandated portion of the facility fees, explicitly omitting hotel costs, meals, and any investment surcharges that residents must finance privately.
Evaluating this series requires a year-on-year framework to correctly interpret shifts in institutional capacity and policy-driven reimbursement limits. Short-term or period-on-period assessments are often distorted by the staggered nature of facility contract negotiations and delayed regional settlements. Users should note that legislative caps on the share of costs borne by residents can fundamentally alter this public expenditure metric, introducing discontinuities unrelated to the actual volume of people in care. Early estimates are routinely modified as municipal accounting finalized at the end of the fiscal cycle is incorporated into the broader general government accounts.
Frequently asked questions
- Are room and board expenses at the nursing homes included in this figure?
- The statutory scheme does not cover accommodation and food; therefore, these costs are absent from the reported institutional expenditure.
- Does this cover short-term stays in a facility after a hospital discharge?
- Transitional and short-term respite stays are funded through a different mechanism within the overall scheme and are not part of this permanent inpatient total.
- How are out-of-pocket payments by residents handled in this measure?
- Any private co-payments mandated by the facilities are excluded from the dataset, which isolates only the financial burden shouldered by the public system.