Eye and hair colour distribution among 970 Swedes (both sexes studied)

[The Blade]

Thread Nr. 8 of this kind after those for The Netherlands (which consisted of two parts), England, Ireland, Italy, Croatia, France and Bulgaria.
Mentioning my criteria once again:
I've always had a pretty clear criterion of blondism (even when I didn't know anything about anthropology) which actually matches the Fischer-Saller scale. What I consider blond includes the nuances listed on it. Yellowish colour of one or another form is my idea of blondism (even wikipedia agrees with me):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond
If a person has light hair lacking these tones I call that light brown, not blond.
Orange and similar reddish blond shades affect both blondism and rufosity rate.
Here is the scale I used. Colours A to O are what I count as blond.
The numbers V and VI reflect reddish blond hair and affect both blondism and rufosity values. Deeper orange shades I also include as reddish blond.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fische...93Saller_scale
Other hair colours in my view:
- light brown
- medium brown (including medium ash brown nuances)
- dark brown (again including some dark ash brown forms)
- black
- reddish brown
- pure red
To estimate the eye colours distribution I use the Martin-Schultz scale. Green eyes with brown spots when green dominates I count as light. Evenly mixed green-brown shades and such where brown dominates I consider hazel and don't count as light.
The Martin-Schultz scale includes:
1-2 : blue iris (1a, 1b, 1c, 2a : light blue iris - 2b : darker blue iris)
3 : blue-gray iris
4 : gray iris (4a, 4b)
5 : blue-gray iris with yellow/brown spots
6 : gray-green iris with yellow/brown spots
7 : green iris
8 : green iris with yellow/brown spots
9-10-11 : light-brown and hazel iris
12-13 : medium brown iris
14-15-16 : dark-brown and black iris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin...3Schultz_scale
Colours 1-8 I consider light. 9 is where non-light eyes begin for me.
Sampling method
A small minority of people I included in my statistics (6 or 7 out of 970) have partly foreign background - 1/2 or 1/4 of their ancestry comes from England (2 cases), Germany, France/Morocco (the Jankell sisters are 6/8 Swedish, 1/8 French and 1/8 Moroccan but still look European and in Swedish range), Finland (1 man) + 1-2 people with some descent from other areas.
I excluded:
- people born, raised or nowadays living in Sweden but of fully foreign ancestry (from Finland, Croatia, Greece, North Africa, Arabian Gulf, Turkey, Bulgaria, etc.)
- people of Sami descent
- Swedish Romas
485 people of each sex became part of my survey. Females' results are based on actresses (mainly from the list you'll see below but also mothers/sisters of women in the list with career in the same field - Tilde Fröling's mother Ewa, for instance - and some that came out as additional results in the searching process or I knew before that such as Lena Olin, Rebecka Hemse, Ida Engvoll and Josephine Bornebusch), models (all of the Åkerman sisters were included), current national football team + recent call-ups, top scorers and most capped players, current handball team + famous/notable players and a list of others you'll see among the links provided, sportswomen in numerous other disciplines and politicians. Males' results are based on several metal bands from various subgenres, actors, footballers and a general list of singers (81 of these were included, so as to reach the same number as that of women).
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...dish_actresses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Bornebusch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Engvoll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecka_Hemse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Olin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Fr%C3%B6ling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego..._female_models
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malin_%C3%85kerman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...emale_athletes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden..._football_team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden..._handball_team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...ndball_players
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...en_in_politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...musical_groups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...sh_male_actors
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...apace#mw-pages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...al_footballers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...h_male_singers

Above you see the Martin-Schultz scale. Colours 1-8 I count as light.
Ladies' results showing the number of individuals with the respective eye/hair colour and the percentage it occupies within a total of 485 women (all people in my survey are counted with natural shades, of course):
Hair colour distribution:
Blonde – 181 (37,32%)
Reddish blonde – 5 (1,03%)
Red – 2 (0,41%)
Reddish brown – 7 (1,44%)
Light brown – 53 (10,93%)
Medium brown – 114 (23,51%)
Medium ash brown – 34 (7,01%)
Dark brown – 62 (12,78%)
Dark ash brown – 15 (3,09%)
Black – 12 (2,48%)
Total blondism rate: 38,35% (186 individuals)
Total rufosity value: 2,88% (14 women)
Brown hair total: 58,76% (285 women)
Medium brown shades percentage (including the ashy tones): 30,52% (148 individuals)
Dark brown shades (including ashy nuances): 15,87% (77 women)
Dark hair total (dark brown shades + black): 18,35% (89 individuals)
Eye colour distribution:
Blue – 217 (44,74%)
Blue-green – 17 (3,51%)
Blue-grey – 39 (8,04%)
Green-grey – 31 (6,39%)
Grey – 80 (16,49%)
Green – 33 (6,8%)
Blue-brown – 1 (0,21%)
Violet-blue – 1 (0,21%)
Hazel – 27 (5,57%)
Brown – 39 (8,04%)
As you can see, there were some cases of heterochromia (blue-brown, violet-blue). The dark part was equal to the blue one, so I didn't count these people as light-eyed (I have so far only had one case where light part dominated in a heterochromia case, so I counted the man who possessed the trait as light-eyed - it was in my French thread).
Light eyes total: 85,97% (417 women)
Dark/dark-mixed eyes total: 14,03% (68 people)
Blue and blue-mixed light eyes rate: 56,29% (273 women)
Grey and grey-mixed light eyes value: 30,92% (150 women)

Now, males' results:
Hair colour distribution:
Blond – 119 (24,53%)
Reddish blond – 7 (1,44%)
Red – 3 (0,62%)
Reddish brown – 3 (0,62%)
Light brown – 66 (13,61%)
Medium brown – 149 (30,72%)
Medium ash brown – 32 (6,6%)
Dark brown – 69 (14,23%)
Dark ash brown – 23 (4,74%)
Black – 14 (2,89%)
Blond hair total: 25,97% (126 men)
Total rufosity rate: 2,68% (13 individuals)
Total brown hair frequency: 70,52% (342 men)
Medium brown shades percentage (including the ashy tones): 37,32% (181 individuals)
Dark brown shades (including ashy nuances): 18,97% (92 people)
Dark hair (dark brown shades + black): 21,86% (106 men)
Eye colour distribution:
Blue – 289 (59,59%)
Blue-green – 12 (2,47%)
Blue-grey – 33 (6,8%)
Green-grey – 21 (4,33%)
Grey – 34 (7,01%)
Green – 15 (3,09%)
Blue-brown – 4 (0,83%)
Grey-brown – 2 (0,41%)
Hazel – 37 (7,63%)
Brown – 37 (7,63%)
Black – 1 (0,21%)
Total light eyes frequency: 83,29% (404 people)
Dark/dark-mixed eyes rate: 16,71% (81 individuals)
Blue and blue-mixed light eyes rate: 68,86% (334 men)
Grey and grey-mixed light eyes percentage: 18,14% (88 people)

Average results based on both sexes:
Hair colour distribution:
Blond/blonde – 300 (30,93%)
Reddish blond/blonde – 12 (1,24%)
Red – 5 (0,52%)
Reddish brown – 10 (1,03%)
Light brown – 119 (12,27%)
Medium brown – 263 (27,11%)
Medium ash brown – 66 (6,8%)
Dark brown – 131 (13,5%)
Dark ash brown – 38 (3,92%)
Black – 26 (2,68%)
Total blondism rate: 32,17% (312 individuals)
Total rufosity rate: 2,79% (27 individuals)
Brown hair total: 64,63% (627 people)
Medium brown shades percentage (including the ashy tones): 33,91% (329 people)
Dark brown shades (including ashy tones): 17,42% (169 people)
Dark hair (dark brown shades & black) total: 20,10% (195 individuals)
Eye colour distribution:
Blue – 506 (52,16%)
Blue-green – 29 (2,99%)
Blue-grey – 72 (7,42%)
Green-grey – 52 (5,36%)
Grey – 114 (11,75%)
Green – 48 (4,95%)
Violet-blue – 1 (0,1%)
Blue-brown – 5 (0,52%)
Grey-brown – 2 (0,21%)
Hazel – 64 (6,6%)
Brown – 76 (7,84%)
Black – 1 (0,1%)
Total light eyes rate: 84,63% (821 people)
Dark/dark-mixed eyes total: 15,37% (149 people)
Blue and blue-mixed light eyes rate: 62,57% (607 individuals)
Grey and grey-mixed light eyes rate: 24,53% (238 individuals)

Phenotypical comment
As common as Nordids are (and, of course, they are very common), Sweden is not just a kingdom of Nordic Aurignacids. A huge amount of people (especially women) show purely Upper Paleolithic (Cro-Magnon) or Nordocromagnid phenotype. Males seem to have a slightly higher rate of unmixed Nordids. Faelids, Brunns and Borrebies and their blends with Hallstatt and Corded Nordics roam the country in very large frequency.
One thing my experience on The Apricity has taught me is that planooccipital Dinarids and Norids exist even in Scandinavia - my Swedish sample here confirms this undoubtedly. There are Dinaro-CM mixes as well.
Some Swedes show Alpine, Sub-Nordid or Baltid features.
A good number of Paleo Atlantids can be found but purely Mediterranean types are, of course, extremely insignificant.
Nevertheless, they exist and I counted them in particular (as I was interested) - 1 out of 485 women and 3 out of 485 men showed unmixed Atlanto-Mediterranean phenotype.
Pigmentation summary and comparison with The Netherlands
Of all states I have dedicated a survey to so far The Netherlands is the only one that can as a whole be compared to Sweden. Swedish women are just 1,58% lighter-eyed than their Dutch counterparts (85,97% to 84,39%) but 7,85% blonder (38,35% vs. 30,5%). Swedish men are very slightly blonder when compared to my Dutch sample - 25,97% vs. 24,82%. Dutch men scored as slightly lighter-eyed though, having 84,75% vs. 83,29% for Swedish males.
Sweden's average blondism value based on both sexes is 32,17% compared to 27,66% for The Netherlands. In terms of light eyes frequency the difference is in all aspects (females-females, males-males, average-average) in the range of standard deviation. Swedes of both sexes average as 84,63% light-eyed, the Dutch having 84,57%.
Other elements of comparison between the two states:
- Dark brown shades among women - 16,67% for The Netherlands vs. 15,87% for Sweden
- Black hair among women - 3,19% for The Netherlands and 2,48% for Sweden
- Dark hair total among females - 19,86% for The Netherlands and 18,35% for Sweden
- Female rufosity - 2,12% among the Dutch and 2,88% among Swedes
- Pure blue eyes among ladies - 43,97% for The Netherlands compared to 44,74% for Sweden
- Pure grey eyes among ladies - 18,44% for The Netherlands (remains an unbeaten record so far) vs. 16,49% for Sweden
- Hazel eyes among women - 6,38% for The Netherlands and 5,57% for Sweden
- Brown eyes among women - 8,87% for the Dutch and 8,04% for Swedes
- Dark brown shades among men - 19,15% for the Dutch and 18,97% for Swedes
- Black hair among men - 1,77% for The Netherlands vs. 2,89% for Sweden
- Dark hair total among males - 20,92% for the Dutch vs. 21,86% for Swedes
- Male rufosity - 2,83% for The Netherlands vs. 2,68% for Sweden
- Pure blue eyes among men - 52,84% for The Netherlands vs. 59,59% for Sweden
- Pure grey eyes among men - 13,48% for The Netherlands vs. 7,01% for Sweden
- Hazel eyes among men - 8,51% for The Netherlands vs. 7,63% for Sweden
- Brown eyes among men - 6,74% for The Netherlands vs. 7,63% for Sweden

Additional info: Colours 2a and 2b were particularly common nuances of blue eyes among Swedish males.
With saying the main hair texture among Swedes is straight followed by wavy and then curly I end this post of mine.

[Laag]

Interesting... All your previous research has shown much larger numbers than professional studies. In this case, the opposite is true. The numbers are much lower than professional anthropologists have found.
I mean eyes color. I thought Swedes were supposed to be about 99% light-eyed by your standards If you found 57% Bulgarians light-eyed.
I'm just curious.

[Norb]

Where do I fit into your Swedish research? Am I on the darker end of the scale?

[Ymyyakhtakh]

Can you post examples of persons whose eye color you classified as violet-blue, blue-brown, or gray-brown?

A small minority of people I included in my statistics (6 or 7 out of 970) have partly foreign background - 1/2 or 1/4 of their ancestry comes from England (2 cases), Germany, France/Morocco (the Jankell sisters are 6/8 Swedish, 1/8 French and 1/8 Moroccan but still look European and in Swedish range), Finland (1 man) + 1-2 people with some descent from other areas.

I doubt it's as low as 6 or 7 out of 970. Was there information about the ethnic background of all 970 persons online? Many people don't even know their ethnic background themselves.

The total number of Sweden Finns (people who live in Sweden with Finnish or Finland-Swedish ancestry) is estimated to be circa 426,000–712,000 by Wikipedia. Many have a Swedish-sounding surname, because many have a Swedish father, many are descended from Finland-Swedes, and Swedish surnames are common in Finland even among the Finnish-speaking population.

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Among players who I estimated to be ethnic Swedes in different Swedish football leagues, I estimated that only 578/717≈80.6% had light-colored eyes:

Allsvenskan (premier men's league): 130/161 (~81%)
OBOS Damallsvenskan (premier women's league): 129/159 (~81%)
Superettan (second-level men's league): 152/189 (~81%)
Elitettan (second-level women's league): 167/208 (~80%)

I even used fairly liberal criteria for what I considered light-colored eyes, so that I classified dark green eyes as light-colored unless they clearly displayed a yellowish or brownish tint. I also classified a few instances of light hazel eyes as light-colored.

I attempted to exclude foreign players and players who were partially foreign, even though I did it simply based on the photo and name of each player, and in a minority of cases a Google search. Therefore I failed to exclude maybe about 1-5% of all foreign players, even though most of them were probably Norwegian, Danish, or part-Swedish.

[Supercomputer]

Would have expected a bit lighter, but still realistic results. Thanks for the effort! It would be nice if you did also Norway since there is currently conflicting data on who is lighter, Swedes or Norwegians.

[The Blade]

Interesting... All your previous research has shown much larger numbers than professional studies. In this case, the opposite is true. The numbers are much lower than professional anthropologists have found.
I mean eyes color. I thought Swedes were supposed to be about 99% light-eyed by your standards If you found 57% Bulgarians light-eyed.
I'm just curious.

Get realistic. No country is 99% light-eyed.
Professionals you people quote vary extremely in their criteria. Some people consider 1-6 as light, others treat 1-8 as light (as I do).
Some even include a specific category for dark brown eyes (Harvard about the Irish).
Your mania to include Bulgarians in every thread here is funny.

[The Blade]

Where do I fit into your Swedish research? Am I on the darker end of the scale?

Lighter end of the hair colour spectrum - you are blond.
Darker end of the eye colour spectrum - I consider your eyes a grey-brown intermediate. Would treat them as dark-mixed, my friend.

[Laag]

Get realistic. No country is 99% light-eyed.
Professionals you people quote vary extremely in their criteria. Some people consider 1-6 as light, others treat 1-8 as light (as I do).
Some even include a specific category for dark brown eyes (Harvard about the Irish).
Your mania to include Bulgarians in every thread here is funny.

I said 99% by your standards. If you exclude hazel eyes which you consider as light eyes Swedes will be even below 84,63% while professional anthropologists found about 90% of Swedes to be light-eyed. I mentioned Bulgarians because it is the biggest difference 25% according to professional research vs 57% according to your data.

[The Blade]

Can you post examples of persons whose eye color you classified as violet-blue, blue-brown, or gray-brown?



I doubt it's as low as 6 or 7 out of 970. Was there information about the ethnic background of all 970 persons online? Many people don't even know their ethnic background themselves.

The total number of Sweden Finns (people who live in Sweden with Finnish or Finland-Swedish ancestry) is estimated to be circa 426,000–712,000 by Wikipedia. Many have a Swedish-sounding surname, because many have a Swedish father, many are descended from Finland-Swedes, and Swedish surnames are common in Finland even among the Finnish-speaking population.

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Among players who I estimated to be ethnic Swedes in different Swedish football leagues, I estimated that only 578/717≈80.6% had light-colored eyes:

Allsvenskan (premier men's league): 130/161 (~81%)
OBOS Damallsvenskan (premier women's league): 129/159 (~81%)
Superettan (second-level men's league): 152/189 (~81%)
Elitettan (second-level women's league): 167/208 (~80%)

I even used fairly liberal criteria for what I considered light-colored eyes, so that I classified dark green eyes as light-colored unless they clearly displayed a yellowish or brownish tint. I also classified a few instances of light hazel eyes as light-colored.

I attempted to exclude foreign players and players who were partially foreign, even though I did it simply based on the photo and name of each player, and in a minority of cases a Google search. Therefore I failed to exclude maybe about 1-5% of all foreign players, even though most of them were probably Norwegian, Danish, or part-Swedish.

Hello!
Regarding ancestry:
- I checked people's pages on wikipedia (almost all had such) and most had no mentions of foreign ancestry. I excluded one such case where no foreign ancestry was mentioned but person looked Semitic and definitely not Euro/Swedish. It's possible that some people with Swedish names might have Finnish or other Scandinavian ancestry on their maternal line that has not been mentioned in articles but there is always such chance - no system is perfect. I checked people with Finnish names and of several such only Ola Toivonen is said to be half Swedish and several others purely Finnish, so I only included Toivonen out of these.

As for the eye colour, I remember that the woman with violet-blue eyes is an actress from the first link.
As for blue-brown and grey-brown, there were several such cases that can be found if one googles people from links I provided but I started this few weeks ago and didn't work on it every day, so I cannot remember each person with heterochromia's name.
I can give you random examples of what I consider a specific heterochromia case though.
Blue-brown eye. Cases I usually encounter have the brown part even larger:

Greenish grey with brown pigment in the centre:

Blue-brown of the type I usually encounter in my surveys:

[The Blade]

I said 99% by your standards. If you exclude hazel eyes which you consider as light eyes Swedes will be even below 84,63% while professional anthropologists found about 90% of Swedes to be light-eyed. I mentioned Bulgarians because it is the biggest difference 25% according to professional research vs 57% according to your data.

No professional research found 25% as far as I know.
Wiazemsky apparently counting blue and blue-mixed eyes only found 30% to have them. I found the number of blue and blue-mixed light eyes to be 28,63% in a sample of 2002 people (30,47% among 1001 men and 26,77% among 1001 women).
Popov found 43% of Bulgarian men to be light-eyed counting up to green-grey. I found 41,75% of men in the same sample to fit Popov's criterion. With nuances 7 and 8 (counting up to dark green) Bulgarian men scored as 55,44% and women as 58,34% light-eyed accounting to an average of 56,9% of light eyes.
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...eneral-comment
And stop with your attempts to discredit me - I don't count hazel (numbers 9 and 10) as light. I have separate numbers for it mentioned every time and I include these in the dark and dark-mixed category.
This thread isn't about Bulgaria but about Sweden, so unless you have something to say about Sweden, stop spamming it.