Personality type statistics by country
ISTP is the most common of the 16 personality types in 47 of 62 countries, at 14.8% on average; ESFP is the rarest at 3.5%. The figures come from 580,128 people who took the same 50-item Big Five test, scored into four-letter types the way the free 64 Types test scores them.
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How common each type is
| Type | Average share | Most common in |
|---|---|---|
| ISTP The Tinkerer | 14.8% | 47 countries |
| INTP The Analyst | 10.2% | 10 countries |
| ISTJ The Steward | 8.6% | – |
| INTJ The Strategist | 8.0% | 1 country |
| ENFJ The Mentor | 7.3% | 4 countries |
| ENTP The Innovator | 6.5% | – |
| ENFP The Spark | 6.0% | – |
| ESTP The Operator | 5.6% | – |
| ENTJ The Director | 5.3% | – |
| INFP The Idealist | 4.4% | – |
| INFJ The Visionary | 4.2% | – |
| ESTJ The Organizer | 4.1% | – |
| ESFJ The Host | 3.9% | – |
| ISFP The Artisan | 3.9% | – |
| ISFJ The Caretaker | 3.8% | – |
| ESFP The Enthusiast | 3.5% | – |
Most common personality type in each country
| Country | People | Most common | Second |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 2,437 | ISTP (15.1%) | INTP |
| Australia | 30,366 | ISTP (11.7%) | ENFJ |
| Austria | 1,715 | INTP (11.1%) | ENFJ |
| Belgium | 2,472 | ISTP (11.5%) | INTP |
| Brazil | 4,754 | INTP (17.6%) | ISTP |
| Bulgaria | 989 | INTP (11.8%) | ISTP |
| Canada | 38,270 | ISTP (10.7%) | ENFJ |
| Chile | 1,713 | ISTP (16.0%) | INTP |
| China | 828 | ISTP (16.1%) | ISTJ |
| Colombia | 2,735 | ISTP (20.0%) | INTP |
| Croatia | 1,638 | ISTP (13.5%) | INTP |
| Czechia | 1,360 | ISTP (17.3%) | INTP |
| Denmark | 3,344 | ISTP (10.8%) | ENFP |
| Ecuador | 881 | ISTP (22.3%) | INTP |
| Egypt | 680 | ISTP (16.0%) | ISTJ |
| Estonia | 749 | ISTP (19.4%) | ISTJ |
| Finland | 3,408 | ISTP (17.0%) | INTP |
| France | 4,495 | INTP (13.3%) | ISTP |
| Germany | 10,877 | INTP (13.5%) | ISTP |
| Greece | 1,927 | ISTP (12.9%) | INTP |
| Hong Kong | 2,395 | ISTP (17.3%) | ISTJ |
| Hungary | 1,168 | INTP (15.6%) | ISTP |
| India | 9,784 | ISTP (14.8%) | ISTJ |
| Indonesia | 4,897 | ISTP (20.6%) | ISTJ |
| Ireland | 3,495 | ISTP (11.2%) | INTP |
| Israel | 1,072 | INTJ (10.7%) | INTP |
| Italy | 3,806 | INTP (13.2%) | ISTP |
| Japan | 1,413 | ISTP (15.6%) | INTP |
| Kenya | 903 | ENFJ (12.3%) | ISTJ |
| Lithuania | 821 | ISTP (20.5%) | INTP |
| Malaysia | 6,290 | ISTP (25.8%) | ISTJ |
| Mexico | 8,290 | ISTP (19.4%) | INTP |
| Netherlands | 6,893 | ISTP (9.8%) | ENFJ |
| New Zealand | 5,737 | ISTP (12.4%) | ENFJ |
| Nigeria | 630 | ENFJ (14.0%) | INFJ |
| Norway | 7,305 | ENFJ (9.9%) | ISTP |
| Pakistan | 1,977 | ISTP (13.7%) | ISTJ |
| Peru | 1,298 | ISTP (22.4%) | INTP |
| Philippines | 9,376 | ISTP (20.6%) | ISTJ |
| Poland | 3,610 | INTP (16.7%) | ISTP |
| Portugal | 1,948 | ISTP (17.4%) | INTP |
| Romania | 2,897 | ISTP (14.8%) | INTP |
| Russia | 2,530 | ISTP (19.8%) | INTP |
| Saudi Arabia | 764 | ISTP (16.8%) | INTJ |
| Serbia | 1,430 | ISTP (12.1%) | INTP |
| Singapore | 4,781 | ISTP (18.2%) | ISTJ |
| Slovakia | 698 | INTP (15.3%) | ISTP |
| Slovenia | 652 | ISTP (13.2%) | INTP |
| South Africa | 2,394 | ISTP (10.7%) | INTP |
| South Korea | 1,146 | ISTP (16.7%) | INTP |
| Spain | 3,720 | ISTP (11.7%) | INTP |
| Sweden | 6,519 | ISTP (11.1%) | INTP |
| Switzerland | 1,839 | INTP (11.6%) | ENFJ |
| Taiwan | 677 | ISTP (15.8%) | ISTJ |
| Thailand | 1,340 | ISTP (16.9%) | ISTJ |
| Türkiye | 2,057 | ISTP (14.6%) | INTP |
| Ukraine | 571 | ISTP (15.1%) | INTP |
| United Arab Emirates | 1,706 | ISTP (12.8%) | ISTJ |
| United Kingdom | 43,353 | ISTP (12.6%) | INTP |
| United States | 299,928 | ENFJ (10.0%) | ISTP |
| Venezuela | 929 | ISTP (18.0%) | INTP |
| Vietnam | 1,451 | ISTP (24.5%) | ISTJ |
Calm (-A-like) vs stress-sensitive (-T-like) share by type
16Personalities' -A/-T suffix describes how a person reacts to stress, which closely resembles the Big Five trait emotional stability. Splitting 19,718 people at the median of that trait gives very different shares by type:
| Type | People | Calm side (A-like) |
|---|---|---|
| ENFJ-A vs ENFJ-T | 2,149 | 73% |
| ESFJ-A vs ESFJ-T | 1,344 | 68% |
| ENTJ-A vs ENTJ-T | 862 | 66% |
| ESTJ-A vs ESTJ-T | 889 | 64% |
| ISFJ-A vs ISFJ-T | 1,034 | 55% |
| ENFP-A vs ENFP-T | 1,365 | 54% |
| ENTP-A vs ENTP-T | 985 | 54% |
| INFJ-A vs INFJ-T | 970 | 54% |
| ESFP-A vs ESFP-T | 964 | 50% |
| ISTJ-A vs ISTJ-T | 1,458 | 50% |
| INTJ-A vs INTJ-T | 1,235 | 48% |
| ESTP-A vs ESTP-T | 1,025 | 47% |
| INTP-A vs INTP-T | 1,462 | 40% |
| ISFP-A vs ISFP-T | 904 | 36% |
| ISTP-A vs ISTP-T | 2,179 | 34% |
| INFP-A vs INFP-T | 893 | 33% |
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Cite as: 64 Types (2026). Personality type statistics by country. https://64types.app/data/ (analysis of Open Psychometrics IPIP-FFM data, 2016–2018).
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<p>Source: <a href="https://64types.app/data/">64 Types personality type statistics</a> (Open Psychometrics data, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)</p>How these numbers were made
- Country data: the Open Psychometrics IPIP-FFM dataset (1,015,341 rows, 2016–2018). We kept only answers from IP addresses with a single record and removed incomplete, too-fast and straight-lined answers, leaving 593,520 people; countries with fewer than 500 people are left out.
- Types: each person's Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness scores are turned into four letters, exactly as the free 64 Types test does. These are Big Five based codes, not official MBTI® results, and only partly match them.
- Who answered: volunteers on an English-language website, so each country's figures describe its test-takers, not its whole population.
- Full method and per-country detail: the Personality Atlas and our method page.
Questions
What is the most common personality type in the world?
In our data from 580,128 people in 62 countries, ISTP is the most common: 14.8% on average across the countries, and the most common type in 47 of the 62. INTP (10.2%) and ISTJ (8.6%) come next.
What is the rarest personality type?
ESFP is the rarest in this data: 3.5% on average across 62 countries, just under ISFJ (3.8%).
What is the most common personality type in the United States?
ENFJ (10.0% of 299,928 people in the United States), followed by ISTP.
Which personality types are calmest under stress?
On emotional stability (the trait behind 16Personalities' -A/-T), ENFJ has the largest calm (A-like) share at 73%, and INFP the smallest at 33% (19,718 people).
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