Answers.Body: <p>According to <a href="https://www.quora.com/How-many-active-chess-players-are-there-in-the-world" rel="nofollow">this question</a> on quora.com, there are ~486,000 players as of January 2015.  (They reference a FIDE rating list <a href="http://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml" rel="nofollow">here</a>.)  Not an exact number, but most likely close enough for percentile purposes.</p>
  
  <p>If you're not sure how to calculate a percentile rating, I found <a href="http://study.com/academy/lesson/percentile-rank-in-statistics-definition-formula-quiz.html" rel="nofollow">this question</a>, which gives the following formula:</p>
  
  <pre><code>R = P / 100 (N + 1)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>... where R represents the rank order of the score, P represents the percentile rank, and N represents the number of scores.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks. Seems like there is half million people on the FIDE list. If I am around 50.000, that means I am around 90%, inside the top 10%.
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Body: <p>How do I get the percentile rating? </p>
  
  <p>This is the rank:   </p>
  
  <p>World (all players):    97112<br>
  World (active players): 45540</p>
  
  <p>How many players are there in the world that are members of FIDE? </p>
  
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Comments.Text: Does this answer your question? [Based on Elo rating, what percentile am I in?](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/414/based-on-elo-rating-what-percentile-am-i-in)   Specifically, [this answer](https://chess.stackexchange.com/a/1459/26335).
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Title: How do I get my FIDE percentile?
ThreadText: # How do I get my FIDE percentile?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-09-21)
  
  How do I get the percentile rating?
  
  This is the rank:
  
  World (all players): 97112  
  World (active players): 45540
  
  How many players are there in the world that are members of FIDE?
  
  **Tags:** rating
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Related to http://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/414/based-on-elo-rating-what-percentile-am-i-in  
  > **username_2**: Does this answer your question? [Based on Elo rating, what percentile am I in?](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/414/based-on-elo-rating-what-percentile-am-i-in)   Specifically, [this answer](https://chess.stackexchange.com/a/1459/26335).  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-09-21. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  According to this question on quora.com, there are ~486,000 players as of January 2015.  (They reference a FIDE rating list here.)  Not an exact number, but most likely close enough for percentile purposes.
  If you're not sure how to calculate a percentile rating, I found this question, which gives the following formula:
  R = P / 100 (N + 1)
  
  ... where R represents the rank order of the score, P represents the percentile rank, and N represents the number of scores.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks. Seems like there is half million people on the FIDE list. If I am around 50.000, that means I am around 90%, inside the top 10%.  
  
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