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FTDNA haplogroup statistics by country and region

Which haplogroups FamilyTreeDNA testers from each country and region carry.

For example Z1842, R-L23 or Dagestan

Y tree
276,967
kits with a country · 288 countries and regions
published 12 November 2026
mt tree
135,331
kits with a country · 274 countries and regions
fetched 11 November 2026
Branches
4,320
branches with a page, 50+ kits
Y-DNA tree
Y-Adam
23 branches: fork ages and routes out of Africa
mtDNA tree
mt-Eve
25 branches: fork ages and routes out of Africa
Peoples
167
by YFull customers' native language · snapshot 2 November 2026

Countries and regions #

All countries and regions: 294 →

The four largest samples and the four the site covers in most detail. Every country and region has its own page with the paternal and maternal trees.

United States
Y 30,921 · mt 20,184
R-L51 60.3%I-DF29 9.5%I-P215 6.9%
England
Y 27,817 · mt 12,386
R-L51 56.5%I-M253 15.4%I-P215 8.4%
Ireland
Y 22,334 · mt 10,169
R-DF13 53.6%I-P215 7.2%R-U106 6.4%
Germany
Y 17,585 · mt 10,944
R-L51 38.1%I-M253 15.2%R-M198 9.6%
Russia
Y 7,200 · mt 2,821
R-M198 29.6%N-M178 11.9%J-M172 10.1%
Turkey
Y 2,545 · mt 903
J-M410 19.4%J-M267 12.1%R-M12149 10.1%
Chechnya
Y 1,710 · mt 465
J-Z7671 32.7%J-M267 25.2%L-M357 18.5%
Dagestan
Y 1,065 · mt 53
J-Z1842 53.1%J-M410 10.6%R-M12149 8.6%

Peoples #

All peoples: 167 →

YFull customers name their native language, so haplogroups can be seen by people, not only by country. The six largest samples.

Arabic · ara
Arabs
Y 2,496 · mt 160
most often J-FGC11 — 46%
English · eng
English
Y 1,054 · mt 534
most often R-L51 — 40%
Chechen · che
Chechens
Y 1,055 · mt 297
most often J-Z7671 — 45%
Russian · rus
Russians
Y 839 · mt 389
most often R-Z282 — 50%
Serbian · srp
Serbs
Y 451 · mt 172
most often I-CTS10228 — 37%
Polish · pol
Poles
Y 363 · mt 138
most often R-Z282 — 54%

You can also compare #

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Pick up to eight countries, regions or peoples and see their paternal and maternal lines side by side, with a similarity percentage.

Comparison
Finland · Sweden · Norway
Y and mt side by side, similarity in percent
Comparison
Spain · Portugal · Mexico
Y and mt side by side, similarity in percent
Comparison
Armenia · Georgia · Azerbaijan · Turkey
Y and mt side by side, similarity in percent

Ancient cultures: did the people change? #

All chains and the comparison →

Stories where ancient DNA shows whether the male lines changed along with the culture.

Iberian Peninsula
Neolithic Iberian → Chalcolithic Iberian → Bell Beaker culture → Bronze Age Iberian
Copper Age and Beaker share 19%, Beaker and Bronze Age 85%
Carpathian Basin
Avars, early period → Avars, late period → Hungarians → Medieval Hungarian
Medieval Hungary is as close to the Avars as to the conquerors
Pontic steppe
Srubnaya → Scythians → Sarmatians
Scythians and Sarmatians share 68%, R1a leads in both
Central Europe, Bronze and Iron Age
Unterwölbling culture → Urnfield culture → Hallstatt culture → La Tène culture
Unterwölbling and Urnfield share 92%, Hallstatt and La Tène 55%

Y-tree branches #

Every FamilyTreeDNA tree branch with 50 or more kits has its own page: where its carriers are from, how old the common ancestor is, sub-branches, surnames. The best-known:

R1b-M269
R-M269
109,204 kits · ancestor 6,500 years (5,700–7,400)
most often: Ireland — 80% of kits
I1
I-M253
29,793 kits · ancestor 20k years (18k–23k)
most often: Sweden — 45% of kits
R1a-M417
R-M417
20,958 kits · ancestor 5,300 years (4,600–6,000)
most often: Poland — 35% of kits
J1
J-M267
19,289 kits · ancestor 19k years (17k–22k)
most often: Yemen — 64% of kits
J2
J-M172
17,241 kits · ancestor 28k years (25k–32k)
most often: Ingushetia — 65% of kits
E1b1b-M35
E-M35
14,690 kits · ancestor 25k years (22k–29k)
most often: Somalia — 67% of kits
G2a
G-P15
7,544 kits · ancestor 19k years (17k–22k)
most often: Adygea — 42% of kits
J1-Z1842
J-Z1842
1,384 kits · ancestor 6,400 years (5,600–7,400)
most often: Dagestan — 53% of kits

Find any other branch by its SNP in the search above, for example Z1842, R-L23, J1-Z1842. Branches with a page: 4,320 →

Findings #

All findings: 120 →

What stands out in the data. Recomputed with every update.

Most distinctive branches
×106
Dagestan · J-Z1842 J1-Z1842: 53% of kits, 106× the world share (565 kits)
Young but widespread branches
17 countries
J-FGC1: common ancestor 1,800 years (1,600–2,100) ago, already in 17 countries (1,479 kits)
Ancient branches that stayed home
68%
N-CTS3103: ancestor 4,700 years (4,100–5,400) ago, yet 68% of kits still come from one country, Finland (9,032 kits)

What's new #

+14
new kits
in the week to 12 November 2026
108
new branches
111,261 nodes in total
+158
mt samples on YFull
snapshot 2 November 2026

Most new kits: United States +27, England +18, Ireland +15.

All changes →

These are FamilyTreeDNA and YFull customers, not whole populations. The country is the one a tester named as the homeland of their earliest ancestor on the paternal (Y) or maternal (mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA)) line. How it is computed → About the data