Age old question as old as the meme it’s self.
Don’t worry about the player count. Have fun, make ISK, blow others up!
Always enough people here to keep the ecosystem going. If not CCP would shut the game down.
https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-people-keep-declaring-every-game-dying-dead/373232/1
Wrote a post on this sometime ago saw two nice videos on Youtube at the moment and thought I would share. 