This is why, even though the gene may not die out, the number of redheads will continue to decline. However, for as long as the gene is still circulating, the chance of a red haired child being born is not zero. So you can expect one turning up every now and then, just less often.

Are gingers going to be extinct?

But whatever happens, redheads will not be going extinct. They will almost certainly decrease in numbers but there will always be a few around. And luckily for redheads, their numbers will probably never get all the way down to 6 or 7 million.

How long will gingers go extinct?

Red hair certainly has made the endangered list. But with 4 percent of 6.4 billion people carrying the gene, says University of Rochester Medical Center's David Pearce, it is too large a figure to be wiped out completely in the next 95 years.