That number is all the sign ups till date. It also contains almost a quarter of a million sign ups with 0 posts.
I don't think there is any way to find the number of active users. The new forum may have an option to search for number of unique log ins in a set time period.
This will give you an idea as to how many total accounts have been active in a 7 day period and how many unique users were active in the last 7 days (active as in logged in and viewed threads).
From ~Oct 30 - ~Nov 12 (both 2014), roughly 171k users were active from ~151k IP addresses (IP addresses appear to include people who never logged in).
Hmmm so there were just about 4.5% of total members active in that 12 days. That ratio is a lot lower than what I thought.
I think the ad slot stats numbers are counted separately in different ad slots. Say if I was shown the ad 1 and ad 10 during the period, both the two "Unique logged-in users" numbers should be up by 1.