Places That Are Home to the Most Redheads

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Natural redheads make up just one to two percent of the global population — with no more than roughly 150 million of them living at any given time. This unique characteristic can be found around the world, but there are no standard statistics measuring its prevalence in different countries. Reports vary due to the difficulty in classifying exactly who counts as a natural redhead. Even so, smaller studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that there are certain parts of the world where an abundance of people have this uncommon trait. Here are four places around the world with a particularly high number of redheads.