FIDE world rankings

Best Performing Countries – Open[1]

Federation (≥3 Players)	Players (Among Top 100)
Russia	22
China	9
Ukraine	9
United States	9
India	7
Hungary	5
Azerbaijan	4
England	4
Armenia	3
Spain	3
Other	25

The top 20 players were ranked on 1 December 2021 as follows:[1]

Rank	Rank change*	Player	Rating	Rating change*
1		Magnus Carlsen	2856	1
2	7	Alireza Firouzja	2804	34
3	1	Ding Liren	2799
4	1	Fabiano Caruana	2792	1
5		Ian Nepomniachtchi	2782
6	2	Levon Aronian	2772	10
7	1	Anish Giri	2772	2
8		Wesley So	2772
9	2	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2767	2
10	1	Alexander Grischuk	2764
11	1	Richárd Rapport	2763
12	2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2761	5
13	1	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2760	4
14	1	Teimour Radjabov	2753	10
15		Leinier Domínguez	2752
16		Viswanathan Anand	2751
17		Wang Hao	2744
18		Sergey Karjakin	2743
19	1	Nikita Vitiugov	2731	3
20	1	Veselin Topalov	2730
*Change from the previous month

Best Performing Countries – Women[2]

Federation (≥3 Players)	Players (Among Top 100)
Russia	18
China	13
Georgia	6
India	6
Poland	6
France	5
Ukraine	5
United States	4
Armenia	3
Azerbaijan	3
Kazakhstan	3
Spain	3
Other	25

The top 20 female players were ranked on 1 December 2021 as follows:[2]

Rank	Rank change*	Player	Rating	Rating change*
1		Hou Yifan	2658
2		Aleksandra Goryachkina	2610	6
3		Koneru Humpy	2586
4		Ju Wenjun	2560
5		Kateryna Lagno	2550
6		Mariya Muzychuk	2539	3
7	7	Lei Tingjie	2535	30
8	1	Nana Dzagnidze	2531	7
9	2	Anna Muzychuk	2531	2
10	2	Tan Zhongyi	2525
11	1	Harika Dronavalli	2517	6
12	1	Polina Shuvalova	2516	1
13	3	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2516	2
14	5	Elisabeth Paehtz	2507	22
15	2	Zhansaya Abdumalik	2491	16
16	1	Nino Batsiashvili	2491
17	4	Alina Kashlinskaya	2490	8
18	1	Sarasadat Khademalsharieh	2488
19	1	Zhao Xue	2486
20		Bela Khotenashvili	2485
*Change from the previous month

Best Performing Countries – Juniors[3]

Federation (≥3 Players)	Players (Among Top 100)
India	21
United States	11
Russia	10
Azerbaijan	5
Netherlands	4
Ukraine	4
Uzbekistan	4
Armenia	3
Germany	3
Other	35

Juniors are considered to be players who will remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.

The top 20 juniors were ranked on 1 December 2021 as follows:[3]

Rank	Rank change*	Player	Rating	Rating change*
1		Alireza Firouzja	2804	34
2		Andrey Esipenko	2714	1
3		Bogdan-Daniel Deac	2679	28
4	3	Vincent Keymer	2664	25
5	1	Nihal Sarin	2662	12
6	1	Kirill Shevchenko	2655	8
7	2	Hans Niemann	2645	10
8		Amin Tabatabaei	2643	4
9	3	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	2633	13
10	3	Nodirbek Yakubboev	2630	9
11		Arjun Erigaisi	2629	2
12	2	Shant Sargsyan	2628
13	3	Raunak Sadhwani	2616	7
14	2	Gukesh D	2614	7
15		Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu	2612	2
16	5	Javokhir Sindarov	2609	22
17	3	Thai Dai Van Nguyen	2609	15
18	4	Velimir Ivić	2606	14
19	2	Aram Hakobyan	2602	5
20	2	Anton Smirnov	2600
*Change from the previous month

Best Performing Countries – Girls[4]

Federation (≥3 Players)	Players (Among Top 100)
Russia	19
India	13
China	7
Kazakhstan	7
United States	7
Bulgaria	6
Poland	5
Germany	4
Cuba	3
Other	29

Girls are considered to be female players who will remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.

The top 20 girls were ranked on 1 December 2021 as follows:[4]

Rank	Rank change*	Player	Rating	Rating change*
1		Polina Shuvalova	2516	1
2		Zhu Jiner	2478	23
3		Olga Badelka	2453	15
4	4	Bibisara Assaubayeva	2434	34
5	1	Carissa Yip	2418
6	1	Leya Garifullina	2414	2
7		Vaishali Rameshbabu	2401	4
8	2	Aleksandra Maltsevskaya	2400	11
9	11	Vantika Agrawal	2381	52
10	2	Khanim Balajayeva	2376	7
11	1	Ning Kaiyu	2374
12	1	Annie Wang	2372
13	4	Anna M. Sargsyan	2368	17
14	15	Eline Roebers	2365	61
15	3	Gaal Zsoka	2362	26
16	2	Annamaria Marjanovic	2353	4
17	4	Nurgyul Salimova	2353
18	1	Meruert Kamalidenova	2351	12
19	3	Ineymig Hernandez Gil	2348
20	5	Gergana Peycheva	2342	6
*Change from the previous month

Every month, FIDE publishes a list ranking federations according to the average rating of their top 10 players. The top 20 federations were ranked as follows on 1 November 2021:[5]

Rank	Federation	Average top 10 rating
1	Russia	2729
2	United States	2703
3	China	2700
4	Ukraine	2671
5	India	2670
6	France	2653
7	Azerbaijan	2649
8	Spain	2638
9	Hungary	2638
10	Armenia	2634
11	Germany	2633
12	Poland	2630
13	Netherlands	2625
14	England	2612
15	Czech Republic	2604
16	Israel	2600
17	Norway	2582
18	Croatia	2578
19	Georgia	2572
20	Argentina	2568

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