How many BJJ black belts are there in the world?

[SAMURAI SPIRIT]

Can anyone give a guesstimate of how many BJJ blackbelts are there in the world? Gracie Barra has around 600 black belts according to Wikipedia, with 400 school world wide. Alliance has only 13 schools, but could have close to 100 blackbelts. Checkmat is probably up there too. Plus there are small organizations with 3 - 4 schools. Can anyone come up with a guesstimate of how many LEGIT Bjj black belts are there in the world?

 

[Rod1]

Well IBJJF has 2k registered

http://ibjjf.org/list-of-black-belts/

My guess would be that 1 in 3 are registered worldwide, but thats just a wild guess.

 

[johnyboy]

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[SAMURAI SPIRIT]

Where did you get the 2K number? That link shows up as a search link for names of bjj black belts.

 

[lechien]

Where did you get the 2K number? That link shows up as a search link for names of bjj black belts.

50 BBs per page

40 pages

2K BBs.

 

[lechien]

Well IBJJF has 2k registered

http://ibjjf.org/list-of-black-belts/

My guess would be that 1 in 3 are registered worldwide, but thats just a wild guess.

Bare in mind that this list is only for certified BB and not the registered BB.

I would say than less 1 BB in 100 are IBJJF certified.

 

[Leify]

An upper bound of 10k would be generous I think, even including all BJJ black belts, past and present.

 

[Uchi Mata]

Bout tree fiddy