Christophe Verré wrote:As long as I know, the number of certified people is now officially published.
Christophe probably meant: "As far as I know, the numberof certified people is
not officially published".
Sometime last year (or even longer ago) Sun celebrated that the 500,000th SCJP certificate was issued. So probably there are somewhere between 500k and 1 million SCJP certified programmers.
Note that the score is not on the SCJP certificate itself. What matters is that you passed it, not how much exactly you scored.