[proyb]

When I read there are over 55,000 plugins available, someone on reddit manage to find 16,000+ plugins, the rest could be outdated?

[claudiulodro]

The rest are probably on the various marketplaces and websites around the internet, not the official plugin directory.

[proyb]

Probably, we can only get the actual figures of less than 55,000 from sitemap:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sitemap.xml