Above is a chart with data compiled by the 1000 Genomes Project, which is an international project to research and create the most detailed catalogue of human genetic variation. In the chart it is clear that the highest rate of mitochondrial disease exist within the South Asian race, predominantly in Souther Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, Nepal and even some countries in the middle east. The reason behind these countries having these diseases is purely luck, there are no lifestyle habits that lead to this disease, and even modern medicine does not have a cure, someone from that population got unlucky and had mutated genes, and passed them on to offsprings which in return created new generations of offsprings with the disease, ultimately spreading it. The second highest population with this disease are European countries such as Poland, United Kingdom, and Netherlands.