Effective Population Sizes For Select (Mostly Native American) Populations

The following data is from the Supplemental Materials to a paper examining an ancient Taino DNA sample in PNAS.

It is a good example of the difference between census population and effective population for genetics purposes, and shows the relative levels of genetic diversity in a variety of Native American populations as well as the Han Chinese population. (A separate post on the findings of the Taino paper's main conclusions may or may not follow later.) The number between the population label and the effective population size is apparently the sample size used to make the determination and ranges from one to nine whole genomes per population.

Table S13.​ Effective population size estimates (Ne ) for selected Native American populations. 

Population n N​e 

Aleut 2 2,663
Athabascan 2 1,095
Aymara 1 1,409
Chane 1 3,462
Clovis 1 539
Eskimo 9 1,330
Han 3 19,189
Huichol 1 1,176
Karitiana 3 472
Mayan 2 1,967
Mixe 3 1,383
Piapoco 2 1,023
Pima 2 1,019
Quechua 3 3,191
Surui 2 340
Taino 1 1,634
Wichi 4 698
Yukpa 1 727
Zapotec 2 3,823