Skip next section What’s the demographic make up of the Bundestag?
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What’s the demographic make up of the Bundestag?
The Bundestag may be one of the largest parliaments in the world, however, it is not the most representative in terms of Germany’s demographics. But things are improving.
This new parliamentary session is, to an extent, younger than previous ones. The average age of lawmakers is 47, but the share of lawmakers under 30 has risen to 7.5%, up from 6.5%. This is still below the 12.7% of Germans who are under 30.
The share of lawmakers with a migrant background is similarly not in line with the share of people with a migrant background in the German population as a whole — around 30% — but it has increased to 11.6%, up from the meager 5.9% just 12 years ago.
One data point that has not improved, and in fact has got worse, is the share of women in the Bundestag. Only 32.5% of lawmakers in this new session are women, and this is down from the 36% share in the last Bundestag. This is in part due to the large number of lawmakers coming from the AfD and CSU, neither of which have a women’s quota. Only 12% of AfD lawmakers are women.
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Thank you for joining our reporting on the opening day of the Bundestag following the February 23 election.
The new parliament is meeting with a reduced number of seats — 630, down from the 733 in the previous parliamentary session.
Events will kick off at 11 a.m. (1000 UTC) of the Left Party.
Lawmakers will then choose a new president for the Bundestag, the second highest position in the country after the federal president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
The Bundestag has to meet at least 30 days after the election, however, a new government has still not been agreed on. Friedrich Merz’s CDU, along with its Bavarian sister party the CSU, is in talks with the SPD to form a coalition government.
Merz has said he hopes for a government to be ready by Easter, which is on April 20, although the two sides have found a .
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