What percentage of the population has blue eyes?

Over fifty percent of the world's population has brown eyes, with nearly all individuals from Africa and Asia sharing brown eye color. Brown eyes are ... While blue eyes are less common than brown eyes, they are frequently found from nationalities located near the Baltic sea in northern Europe. read more

Distribution of eye color in the world. From a 2013 Slovenian study with 105 subjects (Prediction of eye color in the Slovenian population using the IrisPlex SNPs), 44.7% had blue eyes, 29.6% brown eyes, and 25.7% intermediate colours. read more

An estimated 55 percent of the world's population has brown eyes and, in some people, the eyes are so dark that they appear black. Around 8 percent of the world's population has blue eyes and between 5 and 8 percent of people have hazel eyes. read more

Either way, just 17% of the world’s population has blue eyes. For the majority of the world’s population — an estimated 80% – those elusive movie star eyes can usually only be obtained with the aid of colored contact lenses. But today there’s a medical procedure that can permanently turn your brown eyes blue. read more