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Statistics on flag colors

Last modified: 2004-09-18 by phil nelson
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I have always asked myself what is the most frequent combination of colours; what is the most used colour on flags, and I decided to research frequency and quantity of colours on flags of independent countries.

The results are sorted in different categories:

  1. Frequency of particular colour on researched flags
  2. Area of particular colour on researched flags
  3. Number of one, two three...-coloured flags
  4. Frequency of particular colour combinations on researched flags

Firstly, I had to differentiate colours. I have divided them in 10 groups:

  • W -white
  • N - black
  • R - red
  • B - blue
  • V - green
  • Y - yellow/gold (I have merged those colours, because sometimes is hard to determine yellow from gold on certain flags)
  • O - orange
  • M - brown (maroon)
  • G - gray
  • P - purple

There are 192 flags of independent countries in the world. The most frequent are the three-coloured flags.

no of colours no of flags %
1 1 0.52
2 43 22.40
3 76 39.58
4 45 23.44
5 14 7.29
6 7 3.65
7 4 2.08
8 2 1.04

And the most frequent combination of colours is White/Red/Blue...

Combinations Number References
W/R/B 30
W/R