The health care industry is an interdisciplinary sector with numerous submarkets. The core area, the so-called primary health care market, relates to conventional health care, with services that are primarily financed by the statutory health insurance companies.
The secondary health care market comprises all privately financed health care products and services.
In all, more than 6,400 companies in the health care industry are active in the primary and secondary health care markets in Hamburg.
Hamburg’s health care industry is a growth sector and a major employer in the city: just under one in seven people in Hamburg works in this sector and approximately one in eleven euros in Hamburg’s economy is generated in the health care area. The health care industry is therefore a key contributor to Hamburg’s economy as a whole.
Economic data
Key figures of the health care industry
Data
Number of companies
6.358
Employees subject to social insurance contributions
75.690
Size range of the companies
-1-3 employees
5.482
-4-9 employees
469
-10-49 employees
281
>50 employees
126
Current climate in the health care industry
The calculated business climate indicator for the Hamburg economy and the respective sectors results from the assessments of the current situation and future development. The resulting values are between 0 and 200 index points.
