Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of Sub-Saharan Africa
The proportions of various human Y-DNA haplogroups vary significantly from one ethnic or language group to another in Africa.
Data in the table below are based on genetic research. Each group sampled is identified in the second column by linguistic designation: AA = Afroasiatic, KS = Khoisan, NS = Nilo-Saharan and NC = Niger–Congo. The third column gives the total sample size studied, and the other columns indicate the percentage observed of particular haplogroups.
| Population | Language group | n | A | B | E1a | E1b1a | E1b1b | E2 | J | R1b | T | Reference |
| Afro-Asiatic | Afro-Asiatic | 236 | 5.5 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 3.3 | 34.8 | 0.8 | 19.5 | 20.8 | 3.8 | Wood 2005 |
| Alur | Nilotic | 9 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Amhara | Semitic | 48 | 14.6 | 2.1 | 0 | 45.8 | 0 | 33.3 | 0 | 4.2 | Hassan 2008 | |
| Bamileke | Bantoid | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Luis 2004 |
| Bantus | Bantu | 795 | 0.5 | 6.7 | 0.2 | 79.4 | 0.1 | 6.2 | 0 | 5.5 | 0 | Berniell 2009 |
| Bantus | Bantu | 29 | 13.8 | 3.4 | 0 | 51.7 | 13.7 | 17.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hurles 2005 |
| Bantus | Bantu | 110 | 2.7 | 9.1 | 48.2 | 21.8 | 16.4 | 0 | 0 | 1.8 | ||
| Bantus | Southern Bantu | 137 | 5.1 | 10.9 | 0 | 54.7 | 4.4 | 21.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Bantus | Bantu | 343 | 5.0 | 16.3 | 66.2 | 1.5 | 10.2 | 0 | Naidoo 2010 | |||
| Beja | Cushitic | 42 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52.4 | 0 | 38.1 | 4.8 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Benin | Gbe | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Luis 2004 |
| Berbers | Berber | 64 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 80 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Cruciani2002 |
| Bissagos Islands | Bijagó, Niger–Congo | 21 | 76.2 | 14.3 | Rosa 2007 | |||||||
| Burkina Faso | Niger–Congo | 106 | 0 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 81.1 | 2.8 | 11.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cruciani2002 |
| Burunge | Cushitic | 24 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 33 | Tishkoff 2007 | |||||
| Cameroon | Adamawa | 72 | 1.4 | 12.5 | 4.2 | 54.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27.8 | 0 | Cruciani2002 |
| Cameroon | Chadic | 54 | 1.8 | 3.7 | 0 | 13.0 | 3.7 | 7.4 | 0 | 70.4 | 0 | Cruciani2002 |
| Cameroon | Bantoid | 89 | 0 | 5.6 | 0 | 93.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | Cruciani2002 |
| R.D. Congo | Bantu | 36 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 63.9 | 13.9 | 19.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Copts | Arabic | 33 | 0 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 21.2 | 0 | 45.5 | 15.2 | Hassan 2008 | |
| Cross River | Cross River | 1113 | 0 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Veeramah2010 | ||||
| Datog | Nilotic | 35 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 54 | Tishkoff 2007 | |||||
| Dinka | Nilotic | 26 | 62 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Dogon | Dogon | 55 | 1.8 | 7.3 | 45.5 | 43.6 | 0 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Ethiopians | Afro-Asiatic | 242 | 17.8 | 0.8 | 0 | 48.8 | 0.4 | 26.9 | 0 | 3.7 | Moran 2004 | |
| Ethiopian Jews | Semitic | 22 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | Cruciani2002 |
| Fulbe | Senegambian | 37 | 5.4 | 0 | 29.7 | 48.6 | 0 | 0 | 8.1 | Cruciani2002 | ||
| Fulbe | Senegambian | 59 | 13.6 | 1.7 | Rosa 2007 | |||||||
| Fulbe | Senegambian | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34.6 | 0 | 0 | 53.8 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Fulbe | Senegambian | 21 | 0 | Cruciani2010 | ||||||||
| Fur | Fur | 32 | 31.3 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 59.4 | 0 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Ghana | Kwa | 91 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 92.3 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Hadza | Hadza | 80 | 0 | 57.5 | 26.2 | 15.0 | Tishkoff 2007 | |||||
| Hausa | Chadic | 32 | 12.5 | 15.6 | 0 | 12.5 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 40.6 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Hema | Northeast Bantu | 18 | 6 | 0 | 2.2 | 28 | 28 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Herero | Niger–Congo | 24 | 4.2 | 70.8 | 12.5 | I = 4.2%; R1a = 4.2%. | ||||||
| Hutu | Northeast Bantu | 69 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 83 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Luis 2004 |
| Igbo | Volta–Niger | 209 | A3b2=0 | 89.3 | 0 | 0 | Veeramah 2010 | |||||
| Iraqw | Cushitic | 9 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 11 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Khoisan | Khoisan | 90 | 47.7 | 14.4 | 0 | 24.4 | 6.7 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Khoisan | Khoisan | 183 | 44.3 | 11.5 | 0 | 23.0 | 16.4 | 1.6 | 0 | 1.6 | 0 | Naidoo 2010 |
| Khoisan | Khoisan | 129 | 33.3 | 12.4 | 0 | 35.7 | 14.7 | 3.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Tishkoff 2007 |
| Kikuyu & Kamba | Northeast Bantu | 42 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 73 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| ǃKung | Northern Khoisan | 64 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 39 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cruciani2002 |
| Luo | Nilotic | 9 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Maasai | Nilotic | 26 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Malagasy | Malayo-Polynesian | 35 | 0 | 8.6 | 0 | 34.3 | 0 | 8.6 | 5.7 | 0 | O = 34.3% | |
| Mandinka | Mande | 39 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 79 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Mandinka | Manding | 45 | 86.7 | 4.4 | Rosa 2007 | |||||||
| Masalit | Maban | 32 | 18.8 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 71.9 | 0 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Mossi | Gur | 49 | 0 | 2 | 90 | 2 | Tishkoff 2007 | |||||
| Namibia | Khoikhoi | 11 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 | |
| Nande | Northeast Bantu | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Niger–Congo | Niger–Congo | 705 | 2.7 | 9.6 | 4.5 | 68.2 | 3.9 | 6.9 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Nilo-Saharan | Nilo-Saharan | 91 | 12.1 | 35.2 | 0 | 29.7 | 14.3 | 8.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Nilo-Saharan | Nilo-Saharan | 345 | 23.2 | 17.4 | 9.9 | 33.9 | 2.6 | 6.1 | ||||
| Nubians | Nubian, Arabic | 39 | 0 | 7.7 | 0 | 0 | 23.1 | 0 | 43.6 | 10.3 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Nuba | Nuba | 28 | 46.4 | 14.3 | 0 | 0 | 39.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Nuer | Nilotic | 12 | 33.3 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 16.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Oromo | Cushitic | 78 | 10.3 | 1.3 | 0 | 62.8 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 0 | 5.1 | Hassan 2008 | |
| Ouldeme | Chadic | 13 | 95.5 | Cruciani2010 | ||||||||
| Pygmy | Central Sudanic | 47 | 2 | 59 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Pygmy | Niger–Congo | 60 | 5 | 53.3 | 28.3 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 | 0 | Berniell 2009 | ||
| Sandawe | Sandawe | 68 | 4 | 14 | 43 | 34 | Tishkoff 2007 | |||||
| Senegalese | Niger–Congo | 139 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 81.3 | 6.5 | 2.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Shilluk | Nilotic | 15 | 53.3 | 26.7 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| Shuwa Arabs | Arabic | 5 | 40 | Cruciani2010 | ||||||||
| Somalis | Cushitic | 201 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0 | 1.5 | 77.6 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 10.4 | Sanchez2005 |
| South African Whites | Indo-European | 157 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 9.6 | 0 | 3.8 | 51.6 | Others=33.8 | |
| Sudan | Semitic | 102 | 2.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.7 | 0 | 47.1 | 15.7 | 0 | Hassan 2008 |
| South Sudan | Nilotic | 81 | 50.6 | 24.7 | 0 | 0 | 24.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hassan 2008 | |
| West Sudan | Nilo-Saharan | 90 | 27.8 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 62.2 | 0 | 4.4 | 0 | Hassan 2008 | |
| Tuareg | Berber | 38 | 0 | 16.7 | 77.8 | 0 | 0 | Pereira 2010 | ||||
| Tuareg | Berber | 21 | 0 | 9.1 | 90.9 | 0 | 0 | Pereira 2010 | ||||
| Tuareg | Berber | 31 | 0 | 44.4 | 16.7 | 0 | 33.3 | Pereira 2010 | ||||
| Tutsi | Northeast Bantu | 94 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 80 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Luis 2004 |
| Wolof | Senegambian | 34 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 68.0 | 12.0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 | |
| Yoruba | Volta–Niger | 13 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Tishkoff 2007 |
| Yoruba | Volta–Niger | 28 | 93.1 | IHC 2005 | ||||||||
| Yoruba | Volta–Niger | 21 | 4.8 | Cruciani 2010 | ||||||||
| Xhosa | Southern Bantu | 80 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 54 | 5 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |
| Zulu | Southern Bantu | 29 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wood 2005 |