Statistics of Interest as of 30 November 2018
PMI membership is 554,660
Total Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification holders: 889,950
Total Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® certification holders: 36,860
Total Program Management Professional (PgMP)® certification holders: 2,517
Total PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® certification holders: 1,900
Total PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® certification holders: 5,011
Total PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certification holders: 24,728
Total PMI Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)® certification holders: 625
Total PMI Active Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)®: 3,044
Worldwide, there are 299 PMI® chapters, with a total chapter membership of 289,903
The PMPs trend over the last 4 years is presented below.
Trend analysis
Proventures team did a small trend analysis of the PMI credentials over the last 3 years ( November 2015 to November 2018) and the results are presented below :
PMP grows at a steady rate of 10%. However last year the growth rate of PMP was 12% due to edition change from 5th to 6th edition. PgMP and PfMP experience an impressive growth of 25% and 43% respectively. The PBA growth is exponential at 165%
Credential | % Growth Rate |
PMP | 9.9 |
CAPM | 7.6 |
PgMP | 25.0 |
SP | 10.8 |
RMP | 15.5 |
ACP | 47.9 |
PfMP | 42.7 |
PBA | 165.6 |