Let \(\mathfrak g\) be a reductive Lie algebra and m a positive integer. There is a natural density of irreducible representations of \(\mathfrak g\) , whose degrees are not divisible by m. For \(\mathfrak g=\mathfrak {gl}_n\) , this density decays exponentially to 0 as \(n \rightarrow \infty \) . Similar results hold for simple Lie algebras and Lie groups, and there are versions for self-dual and orthogonal representations.