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. 2005 Dec 28;34(Database issue):D700–D704. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkj030

Table 3.

Human HVRI datasets over six continents

Continent Lineages Human samples Number of
Countries References Populations Languages SIL ISO
Europe 2033 4358 17 39 25 31 20 16
Africa 1046 1680 25 22 47 47 22 25
North America 824 1581 7 19 34 9 9 8
South America 267 473 7 10 11 19 7 7
Asia 2867 4778 23 49 102 67 31 47
Australia/Oceania 224 473 10 10 12 28 9 16
World 7036 13 343 89 103 220 194 81 118

Note that the last row does not depict the arithmetic sum in columns 2, 5–9 as some relevant subsets overlap across continents.