This statistic shows the year-on-year change in the number of CDU party members in Germany from 1991 to 2019. In 2019, the number of party members fell by 2.2 percent compared to the previous year. The CDU is one of the largest people's parties in Germany.
Change in the number of CDU party members in Germany year-on-year from 1991 to 2019
Change figures refer to the respective number of members on December 31 of each year.
On December 31, 1990 few East German members of the central member index of the CDU were recorded, the evaluation was completed in October 1991. The figures for East Germany in 1990 (134,409) were therefore based not on the membership statistics, but on a report of the CDU government office for the second party convention of the CDU from December 14 to 17, 1991 in Dresden (page 24).
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FU Berlin. (July 31, 2020). Change in the number of CDU party members in Germany year-on-year from 1991 to 2019 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/956173/cdu-party-members-change-year-on-year-germany/
FU Berlin. "Change in the number of CDU party members in Germany year-on-year from 1991 to 2019." Chart. July 31, 2020. Statista. Accessed May 19, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/956173/cdu-party-members-change-year-on-year-germany/
FU Berlin. (2020). Change in the number of CDU party members in Germany year-on-year from 1991 to 2019. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 19, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/956173/cdu-party-members-change-year-on-year-germany/
FU Berlin. "Change in The Number of Cdu Party Members in Germany Year-on-year from 1991 to 2019." Statista, Statista Inc., 31 Jul 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/956173/cdu-party-members-change-year-on-year-germany/
FU Berlin, Change in the number of CDU party members in Germany year-on-year from 1991 to 2019 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/956173/cdu-party-members-change-year-on-year-germany/ (last visited May 19, 2022)