How many people have the Bombay blood type?

• Rh Negative Facts
  

https://today.mims.com/how-sharing-the-same-blood-type-may-create-other-shared-health-traitsThe Bombay Blood Type (BBT): This serotype occurs in one in 10,000 Indians, or in one hundredth of a percent of people (0.01%). In Europeans, the occurrence is even rarer, at one in 1,000,000, or one ten thousandth of a percent (0.001%). Individuals with BBT do not have a ‘H’ antigen, and cannot make the ‘A’ and ‘B’ antigen. They can only accept similar blood, meaning those of the ABO serotype cannot donate their blood to them.

This would mean 31,200 people worldwide and “out of those”, 177,895 in Inda?The probability of finding a person with Bombay phenotype is one for every 250,000 people worldwide. India has the highest number with one Bombay blood type per 7600 people.[9] After its discovery in1952,[5] Bombay blood group has been reported by various other workers in different parts of India and even in other Asian and European countries.[10] According to Sathe et al., 179 cases of Bombay phenotype were detected of which 112 was found in Maharashtra, followed by 14 cases in Karnataka, 8 cases in Andhra Pradesh, 6 cases in Goa, 5 cases in Gujarat and so on in decreasing order. All the cases were hospital cases and random population screening was not done.[11]