How many people are actually blonde?

You may have heard that it would be only a matter of time before blond and red hair disappear from view. But what percentage of the world's population is actually blond?

We soon think of Europeans and Scandinavians when we think of 'blonde'. Funnily enough, there is also a group of people on the Solomon Islands near Australia, with dark skin and blond hair. And they do not descend from those blond Norwegians or Dutch.

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2%

It is estimated that only 2% to a maximum of 5% of everyone in the world is blond. And these people are indeed often found in the western world, in Scandinavia and Europe for example. People elsewhere are often descended from people from Northern or Western Europe. Except on the aforementioned islands. There, geneticists discovered that the inhabitants do not have any European or Western genes. And so they developed blond hair completely on their own. Quite special, in combination with their tan skin.

From white to orange

Incidentally, there are more shades within the 'blonde' category than you would initially guess. We know:white blond, half blond, golden blond, orange blond and also dark blond. Do you place yourself in the dark blond category? There is a good chance that you have been told how 'light' you are while on holiday in southern regions! Well, it's a matter of perspective.

Blonde and red hair on their way back?

In 1996, a genetics professor stated that the blonde and red hair tones would gradually disappear from view as time went on. And not because we opt for a dark rinse from a bottle, but because the gene that dark-haired people have is stronger and would eventually make the lighter hair die out. After that, there were even concrete predictions that it would not take another 200 years. However, this turns out to be difficult to make too hard. And now there are plenty of geneticists and dermatologists who contradict it. What is true, however, is that more and more light and dark people are giving birth to children together. In those cases, the dark gene often dominates and in that way we see less and less blond people in the world.