Racial distribution, July 2021 (Luckybancho)

[Halivel]

All the charts are based on info from last luckybancho report: Luckybancho survey, July 2021

First of all I would note that for some reason in "Global", "JP", "NA" and "EU" pages of the report all data is outdated and corresponds to April's one. As result of it, what I did was going trough all servers reports manually and combining data from them into regional and then global results.

Also, while this info isn't related to racial distribution, I think it's worth mentioning that in July the size of active playerbase reached 1.207.441 (against 951.467 in April).

Luckybancho considers a player to be active if:
- Their level is higher than 60 (lvl 60 isn't included)
- They have changes in HP/amount of minions and mounts in comparison to previous survey
- Characters without mounts are counted as bots and are excluded

※Keep in mind that provided data is likely not 100% accurate due to how Lodestone works and also due to the fact that we have no way to say how exactly Lucky Bancho aquires and fixes this data. Consider it to be an estimate that helps to understand the trends, with some errors to it.

All images are clickable due to their size, hosted on ImgBB.

Current global racial distribution, clans aren't taken into account:


Comparisons in racial distribution for male and female characters across regions, clans aren't taken into account:




All next charts are taking clans into account.

Global and regional racial distribution:








Comparisons in racial distribution for male and female characters across regions:

[Vipes]

I knew there were a lot of catgirls, but I didn’t know they were the overwhelming majority.

[Theodric]

I'm pleased to see that Hyur and Au Ra are doing so well where male characters are concerned. I think they're the best looking options available at the moment. I'm not at all surprised that Hrothgar are about as niche as Roegadyn. Hopefully we see more focus on additional customisation options for what we have already.

[Eien713]

I knew Elezens weren't popular, but I didn't think they were this unpopular D:

[Cerbolt]

That is a lot of cats

[Puc]

From this I am learning we need many more lalafells.

[Halivel]

I'm pleased to see that Hyur and Au Ra are doing so well where male characters are concerned. I think they're the best looking options available at the moment. I'm not at all surprised that Hrothgar are about as niche as Roegadyn. Hopefully we see more focus on additional customisation options for what we have already.

Hyur are a bit of a tricky one, due to the fact their clans have biggest difference in appearance (and there's a huge difference in amount between Midlanders and Highlanders... and I'm not sure that eyebrows is the only reason), but otherwise they always compete with male Miqo'te for taking 1st place in population. As it shows, in July Hyur won with a margin of 4k players (in April 1st place was after Miqo'te with a margin of 3k).

There're also interesting regional dynamics, too (which I updated in main post, added 2 more charts), with clans both being and not being taken into account.

[Takamorisan]

Eyebrows are overrated.

[Hunky]

What stuck out to me is that Lalafells are super popular in Japan. Female Lalafell outnumber Viera, which is the opposite in NA servers.

I would say that, for the most part, the statistics line up pretty evenly for all servers. The biggest difference is the popularity of Lalafell in Japan as opposed to NA and EU.

[Justuas]

Also, while this info isn't related to racial distribution, I think it's worth mentioning that in July the size of active playerbase reached 1.207.441 (against 951.467 in April).

I thought there were over 22 million adventurers.