World Skin Color Map

Based on color palettes created for all 231 countries worldwide, and using one dot to represent one percent of each country's population, Reineke's maps depict our changing world as a flux of skin tones. Learn how human skin color varies across the world due to genetics, sunlight, and natural selection. See a map of skin color diversity and distribution based on scientific research and data.

Global map of skin pigmentation levels.This map, based on the work of the geographer R. Biasutti, depicts average pigmentation levels across the world. Higher numbers represent darker skin color.

Map of human skin color distribution for native populations, by R. Biasutti in the von Luschan's chromatic scale for classifying skin color. It was reported that for areas with no data Biasutti simply filled in the map by extrapolation from findings obtained in other areas.

[1] Skin colors according to von Luschan's chromatic scale Von Luschan's chromatic scale (VLS) is a method of classifying. Here's proof to my long. The world map of skin color is a powerful visual representation of human adaptation to diverse environments.

It demonstrates how our species has evolved to thrive in different climates by developing varying levels of melanin for protection against the sun's radiation, ultimately impacting skin tone. WSC Maps Imagine people as color pixels. Flying over the world, you would look down and see...

what? Our planet is an unstable composition of complexions: through migration, intermarriage, cosmetics, war, trains, planes, and automobiles, the 'view from above' of the earth's skin tones is in a continuous state of evolution. Those living in the higher latitudes and further away from the equator have developed lighter skin to maximize vitamin D production. So skin color is almost completely a function of how much UV light an ethnic group receives.

You can play around this interactive Skin Colour World Map see skin tone degrees by country. The twin role played by the skin - protection from excessive UV radiation and absorption of enough sunlight to trigger the production of vitamin D - means that people living in the lower latitudes, close to the Equator, with intense UV radiation, have developed darker skin to protect them from the damaging effects of UV radiation. In contrast, those living in the higher latitudes, closer.

Maps of the world without Antarctica Maps of the world with Mercator projection Von Luschan's chromatic scale World map about human skin color by Biasutti (1940) Hidden categories: Vectorizations SVG maps:Path text Uploaded with derivativeFX CC.