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See the ranking update post: the top post contains statistics:

2021 Rating and rank adjustments

tl;dr - Expect a notable bump in your rank. The lower the rank you are, the larger the increase. This transition is planned to take effect around 2021-01-28T01:30:00Z (UTC) . Summary of the update: We are attempting to align our low dan ranks to be comparable to the EGF and AGA low dan ranks. Currently we are projecting that a 1d OGS rank will be about .7 stones weaker than an EGF 1d and about 0.8 stones stronger than an AGA 1d. These numbers will be re-evaluated once the dust settles, but…

From that it seems 10.4k is average on OGS, which coincidentally is a Glicko2-rating of 1200 (Glicko is like Elo, but additionally adjusts for rank certainty).

Note that Elo-like systems have an arbitrary midpoint: that 1200 is also average in chess is pure coincidence and your Go Glicko / Elo rating should not be compared with your chess Elo. In fact, even different Elo systems from different pools (FIDE, or chess sites) cannot be compared, if not linked together some way or another.

There have been comparisons of Go ranks between different servers / associations, but those have become outdated since our latest rank update. The current ranks here should be comparable to EGF / AGA ranks around the 1d area, while our kyu ranks around 20k are a couple of stones weaker than the 20k’s from EGF / AGA