Worldwide Distribution of Blood Types

Re:Worldwide Distribution of Blood Types by BFalkner on Monday February 02, 2009 @03:48AM (#462076)

For some reason I've always had the impression that O was rare. I cross checked with wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type#ABO_and_Rh_distribut... and it seems a bit less than A (O+ and O- compared to A+, A-, AB+ and AB-), but no means rare. Did anybody else have this prejudice?

The 'native' part also seems a little dubious. What is that supposed to mean in terms of their samples?

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Re:Worldwide Distribution of Blood Types by demallien on Monday February 02, 2009 @04:06AM (#462088)

Yup, I had exactly the same reaction (I was even just about to post the wikipedia url, before I read your post).

I may have been getting a few ideas mixed up though - certainly someone with O- is quite rare, but O+ is very common. And then there is the fact that if you are O-, you are guaranteed to have the lowest likelihood of finding a matching donor.

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Re:Worldwide Distribution of Blood Types by dantheman on Monday February 02, 2009 @05:51AM (#462133)

I always thought AB was the most common, but it appears to be less than 10% almost everywhere.

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