Iberia (Spain & Portugal) having the highest amount and strongest concentration of Sub-Saharan mtDNA in Europe. In Iberia the mean frequency of haplogroup L lineages reaches 3.83%; the frequency is higher in Portugal (5.83%) than in Spain (2.9% average), and without parallel in the rest of Europe.
The African country with the largest population of European descendants both numerically and proportionally is South Africa, where white South Africans number 4.3 million people (7.7% of the population).
The Balkans is probably the most genetically diverse region in Europe.
Regarding Italians, the North African ancestry does not exceed 2% of their genomes. On average, 1% of Jewish ancestry is found in Tuscan HapMap population and Italian Swiss, as well as Greeks and Cypriots.
However, it is known that Southern Europeans and Levantines (people from modern day Palestine, Israel, Syria and Jordan) have also inherited genetic material of African origin due to subsequent migrations.
using genome-wide SNP data for over 2000 European, Maghreb, Qatar and Sub-Saharan individuals of which 119 were Spaniards and 117 Portuguese, concluding that Spain and Portugal hold significant levels of North African ancestry.
The Y-chromosome analysis results suggest that Middle Easterners harbour a gene pool with greater affinity to African fathers. The mtDNA of the Middle Eastern population, however, did not show affinity to Africa. This suggests that when males migrated into North Africa, they left their female companions behind.
Hausa. The Hausa are primarily located in West Africa in northwestern Nigeria and southern Niger but they are also found in Cameroon, Togo, Chad, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. They are notable because they are the largest ethnic group in Africa with a population of 78 million.
The unique setting of Papua New Guinea has given researchers a glimpse into how the native people evolved and could show us the genetic and linguistic variation that existed before relatively modern technologies homogenized our world.
The Saami seem to be the oldest native Europeans still existing within tribal context today. Their culture can be traced back about 6.000 years ago when they travelled between a big part of what is now called Scandinavia and Russia. These people still live and herd their reindeer in the same areas.
Scholars from the United States are dominating the ranking with 546 scientists representing 54.6% of all leading genetics & molecular biology scientists. 6 out of 10 scientists in the top 1% are from the United States, with the other countries represented being Finland, Iceland, the UK, and France.
The modern English are genetically closest to the Celtic peoples of the British Isles, but the modern English are not simply Celts who speak a German language. A large number of Germans migrated to Britain in the 6th century, and there are parts of England where nearly half the ancestry is Germanic.
Using genome-wide SNP data of over 2,000 individuals, the genomes of populations in southwestern Europe showed an average of 4% to 20% belonging to a Northwest African ancestral group, whereas populations in southeastern Europe had less than 2% of their genomes linked to this ancestral group.
First, Afrikaners show West African ancestry rather than links to South African Bantu-speakers. This signal most likely stems from two slave ships from West Africa that arrived in 1658.
All together, from these estimates and statistics there are roughly 9,6 million Black people in Europe, with over two-thirds from the United Kingdom or France.
South Africa
There are around 4.6 million white people, comprising 7.9% of the country. South Africa is also an African country with the largest percentage (and number as well) of the white population.
“Patriliny, or descent through males, is the most common descent system in Africa and throughout the world…
In 1804, the country renamed itself Haiti, which means "mountainous," and declared its independence, with Dessalines as leader. Haiti became the first free black republic in the world, the first independent state in the Caribbean and the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere after the United States.
Most people associate Africans with dark skin. But different groups of people in Africa have almost every skin color on the planet, from deepest black in the Dinka of South Sudan to beige in the San of South Africa.
Lower literacy rates are found mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The world's largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011. In terms of the largest number of native speakers, Mandarin is the world's most spoken language.
The Arabian Peninsula was the initial site of the out-of-Africa migrations that occurred between 125,000 and 60,000 yr ago, leading to the hypothesis that the first Eurasian populations were established on the Peninsula and that contemporary indigenous Arabs are direct descendants of these ancient peoples.
The average nucleotide diversity (pi) for the 50 segments is only 0.061% +/- 0.010% among Asians and 0.064% +/- 0.011% among Europeans but almost twice as high (0.115% +/- 0.016%) among Africans. The African diversity estimate is even higher than that between Africans and Eurasians (0.096% +/- 0.012%).
A new genomic study has revealed that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth, with ancestries stretching back roughly 75,000 years.