Table 1.

Number of genes in the human genome as of 2021.

Type	GENCODE [5]	NCBI [6]	Ensemble [7]	Genecards [8]
Total number of genes	60,660	54,644	59,662	270,168
Protein-coding genes	19,962	20,203	20,448	20,916
Genes that have more than one distinct translation	13,685 *	20,110 *	n.a.	n.a.
Non-coding genes	n.a.	17,871	23,997	219,587
lncRNA genes	17,958	n.a.	n.a.	75,839 *
Small ncRNA/pir ncRNA genes	7569	n.a.	n.a.	109,820 *
Pseudogenes	14,761	15,067	15,217	21,888
Others	350	1503	n.a.	7777

The fields with * indicate that they have not been summarized into the total number of genes.