Number of Shareholders Rises to Over 10 Million in 2017 (Shareholding Statistics of Deutsches Aktieninstitut, 2017) (in German)

The number of shareholders and investors in equity funds rised signficantly by 1.1 million to over 10 million in 2017. This equals 15,7 percent of the German population in the age of above 14 years, so that the pre-crisis level has been reached again.