Rapidata/10k-human-favorite-number

What Is Your Favorite Number?

We asked 11,631 people in 124 countries one question:

What is your favorite number?

It took about 30 minutes to collect on the Rapidata network.

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What people said

• 7 is the world's favorite number. 18% of all answers, more than twice the runner-up (5). It ranks first in every one of the top ten countries and in every age group. Japan is the most devoted at 27%.
• Odd beats even, 63% to 37%. Two thirds of everyone picked a single digit.
• 13 is a Western thing. Spain 4.4%, United Kingdom 4.3%, United States 4.3%. Turkey 0.4%, Algeria 0.4%, Pakistan 0.7%.
• Japan does not avoid 4. Tetraphobia predicts a dip, but Japan picks 4 at the global rate.
• 67 is a live meme. Third place overall, driven almost entirely by the Philippines (8.8% there) and by respondents under 18. It nearly disappears between ages 30 and 49.
• Preference for 7 grows with age, from 15% under 18 to 21% at 50 to 64.

Columns

One row per person who answered.

Column	Description
answer	The favorite number as a float. Almost always a whole number, but 3.14 and 7.5 are in here too.
answer_raw	What the respondent actually typed, with surrounding whitespace trimmed.
country	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the respondent.
language	Language the respondent uses on the network.
age	Predicted age bracket: 0-17, 18-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-64, 65+. May be empty.
gender	Predicted gender: Female, Male, Other. May be empty.
occupation	Predicted occupation or education status. May be empty.

Age, gender and occupation come from Rapidata's demographic model rather than self-report, and are empty for roughly a fifth of rows. Rows are shuffled.

How answers were cleaned

Respondents typed free text. We kept an answer when it contained exactly one distinct number, so 7, 67!!!, 3.14, 8 i like how simple it is and 7 typed twice all count, while 6-7, 2 and 4 and dates do not. Answers that were only a spelled-out number, such as seven or siete, count too. Numbers above 2^53, which are all mashed keyboards, along with letters, symbols and "I don't have one", were dropped. About 6% of responses were removed this way.

Quick start

from datasets import load_dataset
df = load_dataset("Rapidata/favorite-number")["train"].to_pandas()
df.answer.value_counts(normalize=True).head(10)

Prior work

• Alex Bellos, 2014: an online favorite-number poll of about 44,000 self-selected respondents. 7 won at roughly 10%.
• Kubovy & Psotka, 1976: The predominance of seven and the apparent spontaneity of numerical choices.
• Milikowski & Elshout, 1995: What makes a number easy to remember?

Citation

@misc{rapidata2026favoritenumber,
  title  = {What Is Your Favorite Number? 11,631 answers from 124 countries},
  author = {Rapidata},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Rapidata/favorite-number}
}

• Curated by: Rapidata
• License: CC BY 4.0