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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?

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    Related to http://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/414/based-on-elo-rating-what-percentile-am-i-in – Ghotir Sep 21 '16 at 15:30
  • 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). – SecretAgentMan Jun 23 '22 at 22:45

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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.

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  • 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%. – Danijel Sep 22 '16 at 16:08