Germany has more shareholders than ever before. On average, 12.89 million people in Germany had shares, equity funds and/or exchange-traded index funds (ETFs) in their portfolios in the past year, as calculated by the Deutsches Aktieninstitut (DAI).
According to the Frankfurt institution on Tuesday, the previous high of 2001 (12.85 million) was slightly exceeded. However, foreign shareholders resident in Germany have also been included in the DAI statistics since 2020. That alone caused an increase of 500,000 at the time. From 2021 to 2022, the number of share savers in Germany increased by almost 830,000. “2022 was a very good year for the share culture in Germany,” summarized the head of the share institute, Christine Bortenlänger. Based on the local population aged 14 and over, around one in five (18.3 percent) was involved in the stock market. According to the information, the strongest increase within a year was in the age group of under 30-year-olds. The shareholder quota is sometimes significantly higher in other industrialized countries.