Table 3 Characteristics of the patients using the association MediNetz, AKS and Doctors of the World (in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich); legend: * ¹ age is known for 01/2016-05/2018; * ² data was subsequently added after peer review * ³ age is known for the years 2017, 2019, and 2021; the age categories were indicated differently by Doctors of the World, instead of using the categories of < 18 and 18–24 years, the categories < 20 and 20–24 years were used; * ⁴ only the 7 most frequented countries were indicated in the years 2017–2019, 2021 [4, 22,23,24,25]

time period

11.2021–08.2022

2016–2021

2016–2021

2021

2016–2021

2017–2021

patients/ year

∼250

∼45

∼60

∼100

∼170

∼125

∼2275

gender

n = 203

%

n = 195

%

n = 179

%

n = 69

%

n = 671

%

n = 1317

%

n = 5386

%

female

125

61.6

129

66.2

112

62.6

38

54.3

423

63.0

827

62.8

2557

47.5

male

78

38.4

65

33.3

67

37.4

31

44.3

248

37.0

489

37.1

2820

52.4

diverse

0

0

1

0.5

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0.1

9

0.2

age

n = 203

n = 195

n = 179

n = 70

n = 273*¹

n = 920

n = 3318*³

< 18

12

5.9

12

6.2

16

8.9

4

5.7

17

6.2

61

6.6

764

23.0

18–24

30

14.8

22

11.3

34

19.0

13

18.6

28

10.3

127

13.8

255

7.7

25–49

80

39.4

72

36.9

79

44.1

28

40.0

170

62.3

429

46.6

1529

46.1

50–65

48

23.6

12

6.2

6

3.4

4

5.7

41

15.0

111

12.1

529

15.9

> 65

32

15.8

6

3.1

4

2.2

1

1.4

17

6.2

60

6.5

175

5.3

unknown

1

0.5

71

36.4

40

22.3

20

28.6

0

0.0

132

14.3

3

0.1

region of origin

n = 207

n = 195

n = 376

n = 70

n = 671

n = 1519

n = 5388*⁴

Germany

17

8.2

7

3.6

2

0.5

0

0.0

0

0.0

26

1.7

691

12.8

Southern Europe

25

12.1

26

13.3

67

17.8

14

20.0

140

20.9

272

17.9

694

12.9

Eastern Europe

18

8.7

36

18.5

37

9.8

8

11.4

0

0.0

99

6.5

2132

39.6

North Africa

28

13.5

19

9.7

15

4.0

9

12.9

79

11.8

150

9.9

24

0.4

Remaining Africa

14

6.8

23

11.8

64

17.0

8

11.4

150

22.4

259

17.1

148

2.7

North/ Central Asia

0

0.0

0

0.0

5

1.3

0

0.0

0

0.0

5

0.3

0

0.0

West Asia

17

8.2

14

7.2

75

19.9

5

7.1

29

4.3

140

9.2

45

0.8

Remaining Asia

35

16.9

9

4.6

29

7.7

4

5.7

0

0.0

77

5.1

302

5.6

Central/ South America

45

21.7

2

1.0

2

0.5

0

0.0

11

1.6

60

3.9

0

0.0

others

8

3.9

8

4.1

1

0.3

1

1.4

0

0.0

18

1.2

1283

23.8

unknown

0

0.0

51

26.2

79

21.0

21

30.0

262

39.0

413

27.2

69

1.3

most represented country

Philipines: 26

12.5

Romania: 16

8.2

Albania / Kosovo: 31

8.2

Serbia: 7

10.0

Ghana:99

14.8

Bulgarien: 1368

25.6