How many humans in elite is there?

[Northpin]

Well, it would be if they weren't just making stuff up as usual. Pop is still around 6.6T

I pretty much assumed that since all the new systems added to the game are generally rather low pop

 

[RetroPaladin]

low pop

I think it's all because of Odyssey - just imagine how much people (virtual, ok) were ended by CMDRs during mat grind on-foot and countless ground CZs to achieve Elite V.

 

[Northpin]

I think it's all because of Odyssey - just imagine how much people (virtual, ok) were ended by CMDRs during mat grind on-foot and countless ground CZs to achieve Elite V.

Oh, but they come from the surplus added by Odyssey's new 400,000 settlements

 

[Sapyx]

The EDSM count:

Current known galactic population: 6,634,768,904,580

That's over 6.6 trillion.