Since we keep seeing new Jedi survivors with each new Star Wars project, people joke about the actual effectiveness of Order 66 in wiping out the Jedi. So, I got curious about how many actually survived.
I personally don't think Order 66 was supposed to wipe out the Jedi completely. It was meant to kill the majority of them, and turn them from protectors to enemies of the state. Palpatine expected a good amount of them to slip through the cracks, which is why he was already working to create the Inquisitorius even before the purge. Order 66 was only one of several steps in destroying the Jedi.
So, here's my calculations:
It is said roughly ten thousand knights existed before the clone wars. Assuming this doesn't include padawans and younglings, this would mean the order has about thirteen to fourteen thousand members total. It's not the exact number but good enough for this calculation.
As of right now, canonically, 76 Jedi were not killed by Order 66. This does not include those who left the Order before the clone wars, but does include people like Ahsoka who left during the war. That is 0.6% of Jedi who survived Order 66. That also counts all the Inquisitors, Vader, and any Jedi who were captured to be used in the Inquisitor trials. Remove those and you're at 53 Jedi, or 0.4% who survived and were actually free after Order 66.
And out of those 53 Jedi, many were still killed by Vader and the Inquisitors, so while they survived order 66, they were still victims of the purge, many of them even within the first year of the Empire. Plus a handful not directly killed by the Empire but still indirectly dying to the purge.
From my counting, only 9 Jedi are confirmed to have survived and/or not died directly to purge related reasons. There's a further 16-18 Jedi currently not accounted for, some of whom were probably still killed off screen by the Inquisitors at some point. So that is max. 27 survivors and likely even less.
0.6% of Jedi lived past Order 66
0.4% of Jedi lived past order 66 and was not in the hands of the Empire
0.2% either survived the purge or is unaccounted for as of right now.
0.06% is confirmed to have survived the purge or at least to not have died directly because of it.
Sounds pretty effective to me.
Oh and even if we add in any future order 66 survivors, I don't think it'll ever get above 1% of the order surviving.
anyway let me know if anyone wants a follow up post with all the names, since I didn't really mention them above
