For the skydiving that will be the USPA statistics as that’s where the sport is most popular, and by the same token paragliding numbers come from DHV, the German paragliding association. Fortunately, base numbers are the same - according to the USPA skydiving was exercised in the USA in 2014 by ca. 36,770 of its members while DHV says it had ca 35000 active pilots in 2015. read more