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Scientists reveal there's a rare eye color that only 1% of the population has

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Published 11:34 19 Jan 2025 GMT

Scientists reveal there's a rare eye color that only 1% of the population has

There's a new top dog in town and one color isn't happy

Britt Jones

Britt Jones

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Topics: Weird, World News, Science

Britt Jones
Britt Jones

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You might think that your eye color is pretty rare, but scientist claim to have defined a new eye colour which they say is the rarest one ever seen in humans.

We all know that there are four main color for eyes; there’s brown, blue, green (elite), and hazel.

But what about another that only one percent of people are born with?

Of course, green-eyed people have always been widely known as the most rearrest of all, boasting a two percent population, and then you’ve got hazel coming in next, and then blue and brown.

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However, there’s a new leader ranking at the top of the color chart, and it’s not one you’ve ever seen before.

There's a new color on the block (Elena Fedorina / Getty)
There's a new color on the block (Elena Fedorina / Getty)

Now, scientists have designated this color as the rarest of all, and as a green-eyed person, I’m not too sure how to feel about this.

So, like a slightly different version of House of the Dragon, the Greens find themselves going up against a usurper who wants to claim the top spot for their own faction.

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Except unlike on the hit HBO show, the challengers are not the Blacks, but the Greys.

Also there are no dragons, though that's probably for the best.

Yes, scientists have now claimed that rarest eye colour of them all is no longer green, but grey.

How weird is that? But it’s true.

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This was not previously possible, as grey was previously a part of House Blue, but scientists have now recalibrated their definitions and made grey a whole separate colour of its own.

If I was someone with green eyes, I'd frankly be feeling a little miffed that a change in the rules meant green eyes weren't the rarest anymore.

But, as someone with brown eyes, I feel a bit like a peasant watching two lords feuding.

So just how common are the different eye colors?

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It's grey ( vuk8691 / Getty)
It's grey ( vuk8691 / Getty)

Well, internationally, brown is very much the most common by a long way, making up between 55 percent and 79 percent of the world population, according to VeryWell Health.

Blue comes in next, weighing in at between 8 percent and 10 percent, around the same as hazel which comes in at 10 percent globally, and can also be traced to one common ancestor.

However, blue is more common in the US, where it makes up 27 percent while hazel is 18 percent.

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Finally, we have grey, the defecting color from blue.

This makes up less than 1 percent of both the US population and the global population as a whole.

Grey and blue eyes are often mixed up as both have a low amount of melanin and absorb longer wavelengths of light.

Eye colour is actually just the colour of the iris, and is an inherited trait.

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A number of gene affect the colour and shade of someone's eyes, with the combination producing a unique pigment.

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