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Germany may miss 690,000 care workers by 2049.

82% of Swedish municipalities already offer digital night supervision at home. What China, Japan, the Nordics, the US and Germany do to give time back to care.

27 Oct 2026

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Germany may miss 690,000 care workers by 2049.

82% of Swedish municipalities already offer digital night supervision at home. What China, Japan, the Nordics, the US and Germany do to give time back to care.

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690,000

care workers missing in Germany by 2049, status-quo scenario

Source · Destatis, Jan 2024

82%

of Swedish municipalities offer digital night supervision at home

Source · Socialstyrelsen, 2025

BASE3.6×

3.6×

growth of China's population aged 80+ by 2050

Source · UN WPP 2024

https://ethority.ai/research/publications/care-original-en · FIVE-COUNTRY EDITION · EN · v1.5 · OCT 2026

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