# What percentage of people heve dimples?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 1, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-people-heve-dimples/96308 "2001-12-01T12:59:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_gullywumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@the\_gullywumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_gullywumper)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-people-heve-dimples/96308/1 "2001-12-01T12:59:00Z")

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Anybody know what perctentage of people have dimples…around the world? In the US? …anything?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
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Depends on what kind of dimples you mean. I suspect practically everybody has a dimple of some kind somewhere on his or her body.

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-people-heve-dimples/96308/3 "2001-12-02T10:05:10Z")

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I have a dimple on the left cheek of my face.

I really don’t think thgat there can be an “exact” number, since it is not always visible depending where on the body it is.

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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-people-heve-dimples/96308/4 "2001-12-02T19:02:27Z")

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If you’re talking about the ones you get when you smile, the stats can vary widely depending on your definition of ‘dimple’.