Distribution of Bones in the Human Skeleton

Source: Wikipedia - Human Skeleton

Distribution of Bones in the Human Skeleton

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Key Findings

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Upper limbs & shoulder girdle leads in Number of Bones with 64.

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Average Number of Bones: 29.43 · median: 25.

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Gap: Upper limbs & shoulder girdle is 64× larger than Hyoid.

About This Dataset

Distribution of Bones in the Human Skeleton

How the 206 bones of the adult human skeleton are shared across the body's regions. The limbs dominate the count: the arms and legs together contain more than 120 of the body's bones, mostly in the intricate hands and feet.

Analysis

Upper limbs & shoulder girdle heads the table on 64, ahead of Lower limbs & pelvic girdle (62) and Vertebral column (26) in Number of Bones. Upper limbs & shoulder girdle and Lower limbs & pelvic girdle together hold 61.2% of the combined total of all 7 entities. Only 2 of the 7 reach even half the leader's figure (32 or more).

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Data Insights

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points

7 categories · 1 year

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Top Value

Upper limbs & shoulder girdle

Number of Bones · All Time

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Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia - Human Skeleton
Coverage: 7 entities · 7 observations
Measure: Number of Bones
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

7 records · Number of Bones · ranked by All Time

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#	Category	All Time
🥇	Upper limbs & shoulder girdle	64
🥈	Lower limbs & pelvic girdle	62
🥉	Vertebral column	26
4	Thoracic cage (ribs & sternum)	25
5	Skull (cranium & face)	22
6	Ear ossicles	6
7	Hyoid	1

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skeleton Visit ↗

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