Eye Color
Only 8–10% of humans have blue eyes. See the global breakdown and where your eye color is most common.
The most common eye color globally, dominant in Africa, Asia, South America, and Southern Europe.
Only
79%
of people worldwide have brown eyes
That means approximately 1 in 1 people share your eye color. With 8 billion humans alive today, that's about 6320M people.
Global Eye Color Distribution
Where it's most common
Dominant everywhere — especially Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, South Asia
Famous people with brown eyes
Put It In Context
All humans had brown eyes until a single genetic mutation ~10,000 years ago in the Black Sea region switched off the gene that produces melanin in the iris. Every person with blue eyes today is a descendant of that one individual. Green and gray eyes followed through further mutations. Brown eyes are the “default” — everything else is a deviation from it.
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