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Green is the rarest eye color of the more common colors. Outside of a few exceptions, nearly everyone has eyes that are brown, blue, green or somewhere in between. Other colors like gray or hazel are less common.
Mostly, you see brown or blue eyes when you look at the people around you, but some people wind up with really cool and rare eye colors. Here are some of the rarest eye colors and how they happen.
Of the four main eye colors (brown, blue, green, and hazel), the rarest eye color is green. However, new classifications say another color is almost as rare: gray. Brown is the most common worldwide, while blue and hazel are second and third most common.
Overall, the rarest eye color is a toss-up between red and purple (since true black does not involve an iris). Green, amber, and gray are uncommon in certain populations. Blue and brown eyes are not rare globally, but blue is uncommon in some locations.
In this article, we will countdown the top 10 most rare and unusual eye colours in the world. Factors considered include global frequency, geographic distribution, and genetic uniqueness. For each eye colour, we explore its distinctive genetic mechanisms, geographic spread, and how it manifests visually.
Green is generally considered the rarest eye color, accounting for about 2% of the world’s population. The second rarest color is gray (3%), followed by hazel (5%). Here is a breakdown of the eye color percentages around the world. We’ll start from the most common to the rarest:
Some people have more than one color visible in one or both eyes. Those differences can be as simple as slightly different shades, or as different as having entirely different colors on the inside of your iris vs. the outer perimeter. And in rare cases, people can have one eye that’s a completely different color from the other (heterochromia).
Green is the rarest eye color in the world, with only 2% of the world’s population (and fewer than one out of ten Americans) sporting green peepers, according to the American Academy of...
Green eyes are considered by many to be the rarest eye color, with only 2 percent of the world population sporting this eye color. Green eyes are far more common in parts of Europe than in the world at large, and women have them more often than men.
At some point, you’ve probably wondered what the rarest eye color is. The answer is green, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). Only about 2 percent of the world’s population sport this shade. As to why, that answer isn’t so simple.