Number of Shareholders Rises to Over 10 Million in 2017 (Shareholding Statistics of Deutsches Aktieninstitut, 2018) (in German)

In 2018, the number of shareholders and investors in equity funds rose by 250,000. This is almost every 6th citizen. In total more than 10.3 million citizens or 16.2 percent of the Germans older than 14 years owned shares or equity funds, reaching the highest leven since 2007.