Schwerin (dpa / mv) – According to figures from the Stifterverband, the number of clubs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has continued to decrease. For the past year, 12,196 clubs are listed in a nationwide comparison in the northeast – that was 1.5 percent less than 2019 and 5.5 percent less than ten years ago (2022). Of the 16 federal states, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ranks fourth from last. Only Bremen (3,597), Hamburg (10,100) and Saarland (10,457) had even fewer clubs. North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria had the most clubs with 121,823 and 93,288 respectively.
Nationwide, the number of civil society organizations has increased by 18,000 since 2016 to 657,000 in 2022. 94 percent of them are registered associations. Berlin recorded the strongest increase in the period with an increase of 22.3 percent. According to the Stifterverband, the role of associations has changed. They therefore want to provide impetus for social and political change more often and are less oriented towards the interests of their members.
The financial situation is tense. A quarter of all organizations only rated the financial situation after the corona pandemic as sufficient or insufficient.
