| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|
| Visitors of the library | 2.168.242 | 2.216.889 | 2.234.085 | 2.262.025 | 2.307.243 |
| Registered users | 70.599 | 73.051 | 72.692 | 75.818 | 76.852 |
| New users | 13.263 | 13.794 | 13.558 | 14.018 | 14.328 |
| Downloads (electronic full texts) | 8.344.313 | 6.555.731 | 6.157.003 | 5.395.030 | 5.003.033 |
| Digital Collection (page impressions) | 3.359.253 | 3.256.876 | 3.201.336 | 3.528.944 | 2.975.164 |
| Loan orders | 1.305.804 | 1.458.857 | 1.618.685 | 1.737.387 | 1.896.454 |
| Digitised images SLUB (Images) | 244.927 | 437.923 | 1.088.388 | 1.519.436 | 2.033.843 |
| Digitised images State Digitization Program for Science and Culture (Images) | 4.087.794 | 2.261.156 | 1.407.198 | 503.709 | -- |
| Total holdings (volumes) | 5.626.071 | 5.573.389 | 5.503.562 | 5.440.623 | 5.388.595 |
| Images of Deutsche Fotothek | 5.032.106 | 4.814.428 | 4.730.699 | 4.494.416 | 4.418.777 |
| Reader desks | 2.336 | 2.336 | 2.336 | 2.297 | 2.215 |
| Days of opening per year | 347 | 347 | 348 | 347 | 347 |
| Hours of opening per week | 104 | 104 | 104 | 104 | 104 |
| Staff (full-time equivalents) | 281 | 281 | 289 | 295 | 299 |
| Current third-party-funded projects | 17 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 17 |