Year Public medical card holders Number of recipients per ten thousand inhabitants
entitled by total of which:
subjective right an equitable basis means-tested support 17 years and youngera 18-65 years oldb 65 years and olderc
2000 224,962 147,920 116,273 489,155 .. .. .. 479.5
2001 226,178 157,573 113,672 497,423 .. .. .. 488.9
2002 225,984 172,147 108,672 506,803 .. .. .. 499.7
2003 234,195 168,763 98,676 501,634 .. .. .. 495.8
2004 242,058 179,006 101,948 523,012 .. .. .. 518.0
2005 258,543 177,690 96,026 532,259 .. .. .. 528.2
2006 233,959 140,887 80,705 455,551 .. .. .. 452.6
2007 233,187 94,672 70,778 398,637 .. .. .. 396.8
2008 230,529 76,992 65,579 373,100 .. .. .. 371.9
2009 224,332 72,519 64,532 361,383 81,764 168,391 111,228 360.9
2010 234,777 68,151 68,152 371,080 88,226 172,773 110,081 371.6
2011 237,282 61,617 70,312 369,211 97,655 170,434 101,122 371.7
2012 230,109 50,352 73,585 354,046 95,026 167,222 91,798 357.3
2013 179,317 35,657 66,900 281,874 71,132 141,141 69,601 285.4
2014 187,353 36,854 64,979 289,186 65,752 144,901 78,533 293.4
2015 228,083 9,149 59,871 297,103 61,188 132,164 103,751 302.2
2016 215,722 – 57,350 273,072 60,618 126,988 85,466 278.7
2017 232,986 – 58,172 291,158 60,637 134,055 96,466 297.8
2018 241,087 – 47,094 288,181 57,293 120,508 110,380 294.9
2019 242,371 – 40,894 283,265 55,665 119,799 107,801 289.9
2020 229,312 – 35,692 265,004 52,186 108,162 104,656 272.3
2021 213,712 – 40,600 254,312 48,586 110,415 95,311 262.5
2022 228,637 – 30,050 258,687 54,541 106,188 97,958 269.5
2023 231,213 – 30,795 262,008 54,514 106,069 101,425 273.4

Footnotes

a18 years old and younger till 2016.
b19–61 years old till 2016, 18–62 years old for 2017-2018, 18–63 years old for 2019-2020.
c62 years and older till 2016, 63 years and older for 2017-2018, 64 years and older for 2019-2020.

Explanation of symbols

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Non-occurrence.
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Datum not available.
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Break in series (limited comparability).
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