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Press release no. 01/2013 of 21. Februar 2013

61.8 million people entitled to vote

WIESBADEN – According to an estimate of the Federal Statistical Office, about 61.8 million Germans living in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany will be entitled to vote in the elections to the 18th German Bundestag on 22 September 2013. A total of 31.8 million of the persons entitled to vote are women and 30.0 million are men. The Federal Returning Officer also reports that the number of persons entitled to vote will thus be slightly smaller than during the 2009 Bundestag elections when it amounted to about 62.2 million.

The persons entitled to vote comprise about 3.0 million first-time voters who will have become legally an adult since the previous Bundestag elections. First-time voters will be all young Germans who were born between 28 September 1991 and 22 September 1995.

Please visit our website at www.bundeswahlleiter.de to access additional information published by the Federal Returning Officer.

Estimates of the population entitled to vote in the 2013 Bundestag elections by age group and sex 1
Age from … to under … year Estimate in millions Share in all persons entitled to vote in %
male female total
18 – 21 1.1 1.1 2.2 3.6
21 – 30 4.0 3.8 7.7 12.5
30 – 40 4.2 4.0 8.2 13.2
40 – 50 5.8 5.6 11.3 18.3
50 – 60 5.8 5.8 11.5 18.7
60 – 70 4.1 4.3 8.4 13.6
70 and over 5.1 7.3 12.4 20.1
Total 30.0 31.8 61.8 100
Including:
first-time voters
1.5 1.4 3.0 4.8

1  As the figures have been rounded without taking account of the totals, there may be a slight discrepancy between the sum of the constituent items and the totals shown.

 

For further information: 
Office of the Federal Returning Officer
tel: +49 611 75-4863
www.bundeswahlleiter.de/contact