Number of self-employed freelancers by profession Germany 2021

This statistic shows the number of self-employed people in freelance professions in Germany as of January 2021, by profession. At that time, there were 121.668 thousand self-employed lawyers working in Germany.

Number of self-employed people in freelance professions in Germany as of January 2021, by profession

Characteristic	Number of self-employed people
Doctors	114,857
Dentists	48,853
Psychotherapists (1)	34,610
Physiotherapists (2)	46,154
Vets	12,001
Pharmacists	14,649
Other freelance healing professionals (3)	156,109
Lawyers	121,668
Patent lawyers	4,028
Notaries only	1,708
Tax consultant, tax representative	60,925
Auditor, sworn auditor	8,396
Business consultants (3)	50,344
Other legal, business and tax advisory freelance professions (3) (4)	155,896
Architects	55,256
Advising engineer (5)	16,285
Other freelance engineers (3)	79,541
Appraisers (3)	22,052
Other technical and natural science freelance professions (3)	115,731
Freelance cultural occupations (6)	340,001

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Release date

September 2021

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Germany

Survey time period

January 1, 2021

Supplementary notes

Some figures are preliminary.
(1): according to the psychotherapists law; number of employed psychological psychotherapists as well as child and adolescent psychologists in psychotherapy practices.
(2): number of service providers submitting claims with the Barmer GEK, based on membership statistics from the German Association of Physiotherapy in 2017.
(3): according to the source, estimated based on the microcensus from various years.
(4): including professional guardians.
(5): number of compulsory members of the Federal Chamber of Engineers.
(6): estimated based on KSK (social security for professions in the arts) statistics and sales tax in 2016.

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