The latest worldwide statistics for 2011 indicate that Germany, the sport's birthplace, is still a center of the gliding world: it accounted for 27 percent of the world's glider pilots, and the three major glider manufacturers are still based there.
2011年的世界范围统计显示，德国，这项运动的诞生地，依然是滑翔世界的中心：那里有全世界27%的滑翔机飞行员，三家世界最主要的滑翔机制造商也在德国。