Statistics of MBTI Personality Types

The distribution of MBTI types is not uniform — some types are far more common than others.

Most people fall on the Sensing side of the spectrum (73% Sensing) and on the Feeling side (60% Feeling), with a balance between introversion and extroversion. The largest gender difference appears in Thinking versus Feeling, where men tend more toward Thinking and women tend more toward Feeling. A small number of types make up a disproportionately large share of the population — especially SJ types, with ISFJ, ESFJ, and ISTJ alone accounting for more than one third. Meanwhile, Intuitive types remain a minority, making up about 25%–30% of the population. This creates a natural imbalance between practical approaches that focus on the present and more abstract, future-oriented perspectives.

The five rarest types are:

INTJ, INFJ, ENTJ, ENFJ, ENTP

Together, they make up approximately 11% of the population.

*The data is based primarily on the datasets from the MBTI Manual, Fourth Edition (2018)

Type	Women (% of the total population)	Men (% of the total population)	Total
ISTJ	7.3%	10.5%	17.7%
ISFJ	7.5%	3.0%	10.4%
ESTJ	2.8%	5.3%	8.1%
ESFJ	4.3%	1.8%	6.1%
ISTP	3.1%	6.5%	9.6%
ISFP	4.0%	2.7%	6.6%
ESTP	1.5%	3.6%	5.1%
ESFP	2.9%	2.3%	5.2%
ENFP	4.6%	2.8%	7.4%
INFP	4.0%	2.3%	6.3%
ENTP	0.9%	2.2%	3.0%
INTP	1.8%	2.7%	4.5%
ENFJ	1.6%	0.7%	2.3%
INFJ	2.1%	0.8%	2.9%
ENTJ	0.7%	1.1%	1.8%
INTJ	0.8%	2.2%	3.0%

 

Breakdown of Women and Men by Type
Type	% Women	% Men
ISTJ	41%	59%
ISTP	32%	68%
ESTJ	35%	65%
ESTP	30%	70%
ISFJ	72%	28%
ENFP	62%	38%
INTP	40%	60%
ISFP	60%	40%
INFP	63%	37%
ESFP	55%	45%
ENTP	30%	70%
INTJ	31%	69%
ESFJ	70%	30%
ENTJ	39%	61%
INFJ	74%	26%
ENFJ	70%	30%
Based on the following calculation:
% Women (within type) = Women % ÷ (Women % + Men %)
% Men (within type) = Men % ÷ (Women % + Men %)