TL;DR: 10-12% of people would rather die than just follow the crowd while 40-45% of people would rather die than go against the crowd.
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In the 16-type Myers-Briggs framework, SF types are those with Sensing (S) and Feeling (F) preferences, while NT types have iNtuition (N) and Thinking (T) preferences.
If we look at large-scale MBTI population studies (e.g., CPP Inc., CAPT database, MBTI Manual 3rd ed.), the distribution in the general U.S. adult population tends to look roughly like this:
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SF types (ISFJ, ESFJ, ISFP, ESFP)
• Combined: about 40–45% of the population
• ISFJ and ESFJ alone make up over a third of all people.
• Tend to be more common in women than men.
NT types (INTJ, ENTJ, INTP, ENTP)
• Combined: about 10–12% of the population
• ENTJ is the rarest overall, while ENTP is the most common NT type.
• Tend to be more common in men than women.
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So in broad terms:
• SFs are 4x more common than NTs in the general population.
• SFs dominate because both Sensing and Feeling are individually high-frequency preferences, while NTs combine two lower-frequency ones.
If you’d like, I can break it down into each of the 16 types with exact percentage estimates so you can see how those categories add up
