Real MBTI Personality type distribution
Computed from 19,072 completed MBTI Personality assessments on JobCannon. The most common result is ISTJ — The Logistician (23.9% of takers); the rarest is ENTJ — The Commander (1.6%). These are our own first-party numbers — aggregate-only, no community estimates.
Distribution by result type
- ISTJ — The Logistician23.9%
- INFP — The Mediator9.6%
- ISFJ — The Defender9.4%
- ESTJ — The Executive8.0%
- ISTP — The Virtuoso7.9%
- INTP — The Logician6.8%
- INTJ — The Architect5.4%
- ISFP — The Adventurer4.8%
- INFJ — The Advocate4.8%
- ENFP — The Campaigner4.5%
- ESFJ — The Consul3.5%
- ENTP — The Debater3.2%
- ESTP — The Entrepreneur3.0%
- ESFP — The Entertainer2.1%
- ENFJ — The Protagonist1.7%
- ENTJ — The Commander1.6%
The same test in 10 languages
JobCannon serves one MBTI Personality instrument — identical items, identical scoring — translated into every language it runs in, so these columns are directly comparable. ISTJ — The Logistician is the most common result overall, and across 10 languages its share stays between 19.2% and 29.6%. Languages with fewer than 100 completed results are left out rather than rounded into a number that looks more precise than it is.
| Language | Takers | Most common result | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 11,958 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 23.8% |
| Japanese | 1,647 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 21.7% |
| Arabic | 1,336 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 26.8% |
| Korean | 1,305 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 26.2% |
| French | 664 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 22.6% |
| Spanish | 290 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 27.2% |
| Indonesian | 259 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 24.3% |
| Portuguese | 213 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 29.6% |
| Russian | 172 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 19.2% |
| Thai | 170 | ISTJ — The Logistician | 27.1% |
How we built this
Every percentage on this page is computed directly from completed MBTI Personality results in JobCannon's own database — not borrowed from textbooks, not carried over from community polls. We read one row per completed assessment, keep the result type and the dimension scores, and throw the rest away: no names, emails, individual answers or per-person rows are published or exported. Shares are rounded to one decimal, so a column can total a shade above or below 100.
The floors are deliberate. A test needs at least 100 completed results before it gets a page, and a language needs at least 100 results of its own before it gets a row — below that, a percentage looks far more precise than the count behind it. Cells under the floor are dropped outright rather than merged into an “other” bucket, because a bucket of unrelated languages is a number about nothing.
What this data is not
This is a self-selected sample: people who chose to take a free MBTI Personality test online. Read it as how MBTI Personality results are distributed among people who take MBTI Personality tests, not as how the underlying traits are distributed in any country or population. Whoever a free online assessment attracts is who these percentages describe.
We do not require age, gender or country to take a test, so this page carries no demographic breakdown — we would rather publish nothing than infer it. Language is the one axis we can report honestly, because it is the language the test was actually answered in, not a guess from an IP address. That still leaves it a language split, not a country split: English results come from everywhere English is spoken.
Finally, these numbers move. They are recomputed from the live table, and the figures above are stamped 2026-08-16. If you quote one, quote the date with it.
How to cite this page
Released under CC BY 4.0 — reuse the figures anywhere, including commercially, with attribution.
JobCannon (2026). Real MBTI Personality type distribution (n = 19,072) [Data set]. JobCannon Research. Retrieved 2026-08-16, from https://jobcannon.io/research/distributions/mbti
ISTJ — The Logistician, at 23.9% of 19,072 completed MBTI Personality assessments on JobCannon (pulled 2026-08-16). The next most common is INFP — The Mediator at 9.6%. Across all 16 result types, the top three together account for 42.9% of takers.
ENTJ — The Commander, at 1.6% of takers. That is roughly 1 in 63 people who complete the test. 9 of the 16 result types sit under 5%. Rarity here means rarity in this sample of 19,072 completed assessments, not rarity in the general population.
Less than people expect. ISTJ — The Logistician is the most common result overall, and across the 10 languages with enough data its share stays between 19.2% and 29.6%. Every language answers the same instrument with the same scoring, so the columns are directly comparable — the largest are English (11,958), Japanese (1,647), Arabic (1,336).
19,072 completed MBTI Personality assessments, pulled on 2026-08-16. Only aggregates are published: result-type shares, dimension means and score thresholds. No names, emails, individual answers or per-person rows leave the database. A test needs at least 100 completed results to appear at all, and a language needs at least 100 results of its own before it gets a row.
Most MBTI Personality percentages in circulation trace back to a small number of older studies, or to community estimates repeated so often that the original sample size disappeared. The figures here are computed from JobCannon's own completed assessments, carry an explicit n and an explicit pull date, and change when the data changes. Where a figure differs from a familiar one, treat it as a real difference between two populations — people who choose to take a free online test are not a random sample — rather than as a correction to the other source.
Yes, including commercially. The figures are released under CC BY 4.0; attribute JobCannon and link back to this page. Cite it as: JobCannon (2026). Real MBTI Personality type distribution (n = 19,072) [Data set]. JobCannon Research. Retrieved 2026-08-16, from https://jobcannon.io/research/distributions/mbti. Quote the pull date alongside any number — the distribution moves as more people take the test.
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