Recent update (2023)

Since 2012 when I first started to compile statistics for the number of PRINCE2 examinations sat across the world the total number of exams had just reached 1 million exams.

Since then, the annual release of examination statistics has not been forthcoming from the accreditation body. Therefore, if we assume that the same number of exams each year since remained at the 2012 level of 145,000, then over 1 million further PRINCE2 exams have been sat since 2012.

So, by the middle of 2023 we estimate that well over 2,000,000 exams taken worldwide since 1996. The rest of this article remains unchanged since it was first published in 2012.

Original article (2012)

In 2012 (the last year when annual figures were released by the PRINCE2 accreditation body) showed the number of PRINCE2 examinations taken globally rose 5% compared with 2011. The figures show more than 144,000 people sat PRINCE2 examinations in 2012 compared with 136,000 the previous year. By the end of 2012, more than 1 million candidates had taken PRINCE2 exams since 1996.

In fact, the total number of exams taken in 2012 was the highest on record, beating the previous record (in 2011) by more than 8,000. 2012 also saw record numbers of candidates take both Foundation and Practitioner examinations.