Facebook Graph API Read Followers Count

Using the Facebook Graph API or some other means, is there a currently-available way to get a user's follower count? You'd think it would be a simple readable metric field at the user level, but after hours of searching, I cannot find such a field.

I know Facebook considers the concept of followers to be valid, because they have a working "edge" for it with their web interface, https://www.facebook.com/user_name/followers as well as listing the account on the user's main page (see image example below).

Certainly it seems the capability to read, or at least derive, the followers count existed previously in the form of reading the "subscribers" list for a user, but that's now obsolete. An alternative method seems to have been to use FQL to query the data. This method is now also obsolete. And there are stackoverflow questions about it, a good example is here, but they seem to relate to previous capabilities no longer available.

Solution

According to the docs, there is no possibility to get the follower count: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user

The subscribers endpoint was removed with v2.0 already: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog#v2_0