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https://mcusercontent.com/6d944e9932...IDE_Titles.pdf FIDE finally addresses this in its newsletter. The number currently (and it is always changing with new submissions) is 1722. I'm happy they are finally communicating this but its in a PDF and it should be more visible.
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How Many Grandmasters Worldwide?
November 13, 2020
From:
https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml
Country Rank by Average Rating of Top Ten Players- - - - - - Country Rating Avg GMs IMs Total - - Titled 1 Russia 2739 256 549 2641 2 United States 2715 101 166 828 3 China 2705 48 39 181 4 India 2668 64 114 408 5 Ukraine 2663 93 209 589 6 Armenia 2652 44 29 132 7 Azerbaijan 2652 26 32 159 8 Hungary 2644 58 120 497 9 France 2638 50 118 465 10 Poland 2637 45 109 447 11 Germany 2630 96 273 1443 12 Netherlands 2622 36 104 388 13 England 2620 36 68 287 14 Spain 2617 56 137 663 15 Israel 2615 43 64 212 16 Czech Republic 2605 36 83 343 17 Georgia 2584 32 40 137 18 Norway 2584 16 36 146 19 Croatia 2577 32 65 272 20 Serbia 2567 58 126 624 21 Argentina 2564 23 78 287 22 Romania 2563 22 84 311 23 Greece 2561 14 31 146 24 Belarus 2556 18 29 120 25 Turkey 2555 12 26 193 26 Sweden 2554 22 43 200 27 Cuba 2553 27 56 345 28 Iran 2548 14 23 129 29 Denmark 2546 13 45 146 30 Brazil 2543 14 32 230 31 Peru 2543 8 16 97 32 Uzbekistan 2539 17 14 82 33 Italy 2538 16 46 251 34 Canada 2538 14 38 209 35 Bulgaria 2537 34 57 158 36 Switzerland 2519 11 39 158 37 Kazakhstan 2517 15 45 173 38 Slovenia 2514 12 25 129 39 Austria 2512 9 58 258 40 Vietnam 2506 11 16 155 41 Latvia 2502 12 10 71 42 Australia 2502 10 26 187 43 Bosnia & Herzegovina 2497 8 25 110 44 Iceland 2495 14 14 67 45 Belgium 2493 9 27 112 46 Slovakia 2491 13 29 134 47 Lithuania 2488 9 19 63 48 Egypt 2480 6 28 78 49 Colombia 2474 9 38 260 50 Former YUG Rep of Macedonia 2472 10 11 50 51 Philippines 2469 13 30 101 52 Chile 2464 6 13 93 53 Moldova 2458 7 25 81 54 Mongolia 2458 4 12 106 55 Finland 2442 5 23 125 56 Montenegro 2438 6 16 64 57 Estonia 2435 6 15 55 58 Indonesia 2430 6 23 140 59 Mexico 2426 4 29 228 60 Portugal 2415 4 15 55 61 Venezuela 2410 2 23 163 62 Paraguay 2404 4 4 32 63 Scotland 2387 7 9 46 64 Turkmenistan 2376 5 8 56 65 Ireland 2374 1 8 39 66 Algeria 2363 3 13 74 67 Uruguay 2361 2 6 46 68 Singapore 2354 3 14 76 69 Bangladesh 2351 5 4 47 70 Morocco 2338 1 8 46 71 Albania 2338 1 7 23 72 Malaysia 2326 0 8 60 73 Myanmar 2319 1 5 43 74 Costa Rica 2316 1 8 60 75 Zambia 2311 1 8 37 76 South Africa 2304 1 9 143 77 Ecuador 2301 1 14 72 78 Faroe Islands 2301 1 2 11 79 Luxembourg 2300 0 4 17 80 New Zealand 2293 1 6 70 81 Tunisia 2290 2 8 45 82 Kyrgyzstan 2290 1 7 18 83 Dominican Republic 2285 1 6 39 84 Monaco 2280 4 3 22 85 Iraq 2279 0 7 74 86 United Arab Emirates 2269 2 7 60 87 Kosovo 2265 0 2 12 88 Nigeria 2263 0 7 46 89 Wales 2259 1 5 30 90 South Korea 2248 1 3 23 91 Japan 2248 0 3 29 92 Tajikistan 2247 1 4 10 93 Bolivia 2233 1 2 40 94 Angola 2233 0 10 34 95 Panama 2227 0 2 39 96 Nicaragua 2224 0 3 29 97 Andorra 2216 2 2 11 98 Uganda 2214 0 2 20 99 Jordan 2208 0 3 32 100 Lebanon 2198 0 3 22 - - -
Would be great to see a historical plots.Comment
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