Facts and figures
The DPG in facts and figures is updated annually and provides an insight into the structural and demographic structure of the DPG.
The DPG has got 63,012 members (status quo 23 January 2014)
157 members are institutional members (institutes, libraries, schools, companies). The remaining members (99.8%) are personal members, who subdivide in the following way:
| 27.6 % | Students |
| 29.1 % | PhD students, assistents |
| 4.3 % | Professors |
| 10.2 % | Industrial physicists |
| 8.1 % | Physicists working in non-university research (HGF, MPG, FhG, PTB, etc.) |
| 3.7 % | Teachers and teacher trainees |
| 0.8 % | Physicists working in the sector of scientific organisation and administration |
| 3.9 % | Physicists working in other sectors such as self-employed persons |
| 14.3 % | Members from publicity campaigns |
5.9 % of the personal members live abroad. The portion of women is 14.4 %. The median of the age of the members is 31 years, the average 35.6 years.
Member Structure of the DPG
Age Structure of the DPG
Percentage of Female Physicists within the DPG per Cohort
Percentage of Female Physicists within the DPG
