Wikipedia says Great Britain blue eyes average is around 60%.It is true?I am a white mexican,but here is more common brown and green eyes.
2007-02-22 16:58:41 · 17 answers · asked by adrien yves b 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Yes. Almost every member of my family has blue eyes.
I never thought about it before.
I am Scottish.
2007-02-22 18:15:02 · answer #1 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not all the British people have blue eyes, but the most common eye colour among the British is blue indeed. This is the case all over Northern European populations which makes it different from the rest of the world, where the most common eye color is brown (Mexico included). Now according to the Blue Eye Project and the ScottishDna Project studies done in 2014, the overall frequency for blue eyes in Britain is 48%, for green eyes it's 30%, and it's only 22% for brown. This makes blue eyes the most common colour there, see. Within the British, it's the Scottish which have a higher frequency of blue eyes than the English and Welsh, so there are variations. In Scandinavian and other populations living around the Baltic Sea, blue eyes are also the most common iris color, for example the overall eye color frequency in Norway for blue eyes is 55%, and 23% for green eyes and 22% for brown, in Denmark it's 50.7% for blue eyes, 33% for green, 15.9% for brown. Denmark is roughly as blue-eyed as Scotland. This has to do adaption of these northern populations to climate, where light pigmentation was beneficiary in order to absorb faster Vitamin D. Central and Southern European populations also have important ratios of blue-eyed people, less frequent only to Northern European ones. Europeans as a whole are more blue-eyed than non-Europeans by far.
2015-03-10 14:04:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of British people have brown eyes and quite a few have grey or green or a mixture. I don't know if it's 60%, but perhaps that covers mixtures such as grey/blue etc too. I have blue/green eyes and blue is very common.
2007-02-22 17:27:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It is not as much as 60%. Places like Sweden, Scandinavia, Norway and similar places will have higher percentage of blue eyes than people in UK as those countries have had far less immigration over the years than UK has. If someone with blue eyes has a kid with someone with brown eyes the brown eyes will dominate as is the stonger gene.
2007-02-22 20:50:44 · answer #4 · answered by Sam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The further the population is from the bright sunlight nearer the Equator the lighter the iris. Blue eyed people have more eye problems if the sunlight is strong so brown near the equator. the whole thing is nature compensating.
2007-02-22 18:33:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
and so? if u like blue eyes, go 4 contact lense and if u want Wikipedia to say 100% white mexicans have blue and green eyes, get in touch with them!
2007-02-22 19:21:50 · answer #6 · answered by Cleopatra 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Everyone in my family has brown or green eyes. I must check my ancestry, I'm obviously not a true Brit lol!
2007-02-22 19:16:04 · answer #7 · answered by chip2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Eglish but everybody says I look Italian I have brown eyes.
2007-02-22 17:18:32 · answer #8 · answered by gitsliveon24 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not just Britain, I would sy it applies in most Northern European countries. It's probably genetic & related to the relative climate.
2007-02-22 17:03:49 · answer #9 · answered by kwilfort 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Post this question again in 10 yrs
2007-02-22 23:00:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋