Question:
What is the most common blood type? Rarest?
mama goose
2005-12-17 14:05:45 UTC
What is the most common blood type? Rarest?
Six answers:
giftlite
2005-12-18 18:27:15 UTC
Blood types are not evenly distributed throughout the human population. There are also variations in blood-type distribution within human subpopulations. The figures given here are for people of European descent:



Type Frequency

O+ 38%

A+ 34%

B+ 9%

O- 7%

A- 6%

AB+ 3%

B- 2%

AB- 1%



Therefore, O+ is the most common and AB- is the rarest.
2005-12-17 22:08:47 UTC
There are eight types of blood, broken down as follows:



blood type percent of

population blood type percent of

population

O Positive 38% O Negative 7%

A Positive 34% A Negative 6%

B Positive 9% B Negative 2%

AB Positive 3% AB Negative 1%
JuliaM
2005-12-22 03:41:51 UTC
O positive is the most common, AB negative is the rarest.
desabol
2005-12-17 22:08:20 UTC
O Positive 37%

O Negative 6%

A Positive 34%

A Negative 6%

B Positive 10%

B Negative 2%

AB Positve 4%

AB Negative 1%
J.R.
2005-12-17 22:11:10 UTC
It really depends on what racial or ethnic group you are talking about. In general



Blood type O is the most common world wide, AB is the rarest.



Below is a link to a chart for blood type distributions.
mathwiz
2005-12-17 22:07:52 UTC
most common is AB+ least common is B-


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