The statistics ranks countries by the number of registered ice hockey players in 2016/17. In the 2015/16 season, Canada had the most registered ice hockey players with more than 639 thousand according to the International Ice Hockey Federation.
Canada | 631295 |
United States | 555935 |
Czech Republic | 113425 |
Russia | 105059 |
Finland | 76387 |
Sweden | 63901 |
Switzerland | 26840 |
Germany | 20646 |
France | 21682 |
Japan | 18995 |
Great Britain | 10325 |
Slovakia | 11502 |
Austria | 9483 |
Latvia | 7145 |
Norway | 9073 |
Ukraine | 5860 |