List of sovereign states by sex ratio explained

The human sex ratio is the comparative number of males with respect to each female in a population. This is a list of sex ratios by country or region.

Methodology

The table's data is from The World Factbook unless noted otherwise. It shows the male to female sex ratio by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. If there is a discrepancy between The World Factbook and a country's census data, the latter may be used instead.

A ratio above 1, for example 1.1, means there are more males than females (1.1 males for every female). A ratio below 1, for example 0.8, means there are more females than males (0.8 males for every female). A ratio of 1 means there are equal numbers of males and females.

Countries

The World Factbook (2020 estimates).^[1]

Country/region	At birth	0–14 years	15–24 years	25–54 years	55–64 years	Over 65 years	Total
World	1.07	1.07	1.07	1.03	0.96	0.81	1.02
Afghanistan	1.05	1.03	1.03	1.03	0.97	0.85	1.03
Albania	1.08	1.11	1.09	0.93	0.95	0.87	0.98
Algeria	1.05	1.05	1.05	1.03	1.01	0.89	1.03
American Samoa (US)	1.06	1.06	1.01	0.98	0.96	0.86	1.00
Andorra	1.07	1.06	1.06	1.04	1.12	1.03	1.06
Angola	1.03	0.99	0.95	0.91	0.89	0.72	0.95
Anguilla (UK)	1.03	1.04	1.02	0.81	0.79	0.98	0.90
Antigua and Barbuda	1.05	1.03	0.99	0.85	0.80	0.75	0.89
Argentina	1.07	1.06	1.05	1.00	0.94	0.73	0.98
Armenia	1.10	1.12	1.10	0.97	0.85	0.68	0.95
Aruba (Netherlands)	1.02	1.01	1.01	0.93	0.88	0.65	0.90
Australia	1.06	1.06	1.09	0.99	0.93	0.86	0.99
Austria	1.05	1.05	1.03	1.00	0.99	0.78	0.96
Azerbaijan	1.06	1.13	1.14	0.99	0.88	0.69	1.00
	1.03	1.03	1.03	1.00	0.86	0.63	0.96
Bahrain	1.03	1.03	1.31	1.87	1.67	1.04	1.53
Bangladesh	1.04	1.04	1.00	0.92	0.97	0.89	0.97
Barbados	1.01	1.00	0.98	0.99	0.91	0.70	0.94
Belarus	1.06	1.06	1.06	0.98	0.79	0.48	0.87
Belgium	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.02	0.99	0.78	0.97
Belize	1.05	1.04	1.07	0.95	0.98	0.94	1.00
Benin	1.05	1.02	0.99	0.90	0.92	0.84	0.97
Bermuda (UK)	1.02	1.02	1.01	1.01	0.90	0.74	0.94
Bhutan	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.12	1.15	1.08	1.08
	1.05	1.04	1.03	0.97	0.85	0.78	0.98
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.07	1.07	1.07	1.01	0.95	0.67	0.95
Botswana	1.03	1.02	0.97	0.90	0.76	0.71	0.93
Brazil	1.05	1.04	1.03	0.99	0.90	0.74	0.97
	1.05	1.06	1.00	0.90	0.98	0.95	0.96
Bulgaria	1.06	1.06	1.08	1.06	0.90	0.67	0.95
Burkina Faso	1.03	1.03	1.01	0.87	0.76	0.76	0.96
Burundi	1.03	1.01	1.00	0.98	0.87	0.75	0.99
Cambodia	1.05	1.02	0.99	0.96	0.78	0.59	0.95
Cameroon	1.03	1.02	1.01	0.97	0.94	0.88	0.99
Canada	1.05	1.06	1.07	1.01	0.98	0.84	0.98
Cape Verde	1.03	1.01	1.00	0.95	0.84	0.60	0.95
Cayman Islands (UK)	1.02	1.01	1.00	0.95	0.92	0.85	0.95
Central African Republic	1.03	1.01	1.01	1.00	0.92	0.64	0.99
Chad	1.04	1.02	1.01	0.93	0.78	0.76	0.98
Chile	1.04	1.04	1.04	1.00	0.90	0.72	0.97
China	1.11	1.16	1.17	1.05	1.02	0.90	1.06
Colombia	1.06	1.05	1.04	0.99	0.90	0.72	0.98
Comoros	1.03	1.00	0.94	0.90	0.83	0.81	0.94
	1.03	1.01	1.01	1.00	0.93	0.76	1.00
Congo	1.03	1.02	1.01	1.00	1.06	0.81	1.01
Cook Islands (New Zealand)	1.05	1.12	1.15	0.98	1.25	0.94	1.06
Costa Rica	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.02	0.94	0.85	1.00
Croatia	1.06	1.06	1.05	1.00	0.94	0.69	0.93
Cuba	1.06	1.06	1.08	1.01	0.95	0.83	0.99
(Netherlands)	1.05	1.05	1.06	1.00	0.77	0.68	0.92
Cyprus	1.05	1.06	1.20	1.13	0.92	0.76	1.05
	1.05	1.06	1.07	1.06	0.96	0.72	0.97
Denmark	1.07	1.06	1.05	1.02	1.00	0.85	0.99
Djibouti	1.03	1.01	0.89	0.71	0.76	0.80	0.83
Dominica	1.05	1.05	1.06	1.03	1.10	0.85	1.02
Dominican Republic	1.04	1.03	1.03	1.04	1.00	0.89	1.02
Ecuador	1.05	1.04	1.04	0.96	0.94	0.89	0.99
Egypt	1.06	1.07	1.07	1.03	1.00	0.92	1.05
El Salvador	1.05	1.05	1.03	0.87	0.73	0.77	0.92
Equatorial Guinea	1.03	1.03	1.04	1.01	0.78	0.70	1.00
Eritrea	1.03	1.01	0.99	0.96	0.84	0.69	0.97
Estonia	1.05	1.05	1.08	1.04	0.84	0.53	0.88
	1.03	1.00	0.90	0.87	0.74	0.60	0.90
Ethiopia	1.03	1.01	1.00	0.99	0.97	0.85	1.00
	1.06	1.05	1.05	1.01	0.95	0.75	0.95
(UK)	N/A						1.12
Faroe Islands (Denmark)	1.07	1.07	1.07	1.16	1.07	0.94	1.08
Fiji	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.05	1.02	0.85	1.03
Finland	1.05	1.05	1.05	1.05	0.97	0.78	0.97
France	1.05	1.05	1.05	1.02	0.93	0.77	0.96
French Polynesia (France)	1.05	1.06	1.09	1.05	1.05	0.93	1.05
Gabon	1.03	1.04	1.09	1.15	1.04	1.00	1.08
	1.03	1.01	0.98	0.96	0.91	0.85	0.98
/Palestine	1.06	1.05	1.02	0.95	1.08	1.13	1.02
Georgia	1.05	1.09	1.14	0.97	0.79	0.65	0.92
Germany	1.05	1.06	1.04	1.01	1.00	0.79	0.96
Ghana	1.03	1.01	0.99	0.94	0.95	0.85	0.97
Gibraltar (UK)	1.07	1.06	1.07	1.06	0.72	0.93	1.01
Greece	1.07	1.07	1.11	0.98	0.90	0.80	0.95
Greenland (Denmark)	1.05	1.03	1.01	1.10	1.17	1.13	1.08
Grenada	1.10	1.09	1.01	1.04	1.04	0.88	1.03
Guam (US)	1.07	1.07	1.16	1.07	1.05	0.87	1.06
Guatemala	1.05	1.04	1.01	0.96	0.87	0.82	0.99
(UK)	1.05	1.06	1.04	1.02	0.98	0.85	0.99
Guinea	1.03	1.02	1.01	1.00	0.94	0.81	1.00
Guinea-Bissau	1.03	1.00	0.96	0.90	0.96	0.74	0.95
Guyana	1.05	1.04	1.04	1.10	0.88	0.68	1.02
Haiti	1.01	0.99	1.00	0.98	0.92	0.78	0.98
Honduras	1.03	1.02	1.00	0.90	0.83	0.80	0.95
Hong Kong (China)	1.06	1.12	1.10	0.75	0.87	0.88	0.86
Hungary	1.06	1.06	1.07	1.02	0.87	0.62	0.91
Iceland	1.05	1.04	1.02	1.03	0.98	0.89	1.00
India	1.11	1.13	1.14	1.07	1.00	0.89	1.08
Indonesia	1.05	1.04	1.04	1.05	0.85	0.77	1.00
	1.05	1.05	1.05	1.04	0.96	0.87	1.03
Iraq	1.05	1.04	1.03	1.00	0.96	0.80	1.01
Ireland	1.06	1.05	1.02	1.01	1.00	0.86	1.00
(UK)	1.08	1.09	1.15	1.00	1.01	0.90	1.00
Israel	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.04	0.99	0.82	1.01
Italy	1.06	1.05	1.01	0.97	0.94	0.76	0.93
	1.03	1.01	1.00	1.03	1.04	0.81	1.01
Jamaica	1.05	1.04	1.02	0.94	0.98	0.90	0.98
Japan	1.06	1.06	1.11	0.98	1.00	0.78	0.94
(UK)	1.06	1.07	1.06	1.02	0.95	0.74	0.97
Jordan	1.06	1.06	1.11	1.18	1.11	0.96	1.11
Kazakhstan	0.94	0.96	1.04	0.97	0.78	0.54	0.91
Kenya	1.02	1.01	1.00	1.00	0.96	0.84	1.00
Kiribati	1.05	1.04	0.97	0.93	0.82	0.64	0.94
	1.06	1.04	1.01	1.01	0.91	0.53	0.95
	1.05	1.06	1.10	1.08	0.96	0.76	1.01
	1.08	1.08	1.09	1.12	1.05	0.74	1.06
Kuwait	1.05	1.09	1.21	1.69	1.26	0.79	1.38
Kyrgyzstan	1.07	1.05	1.03	0.97	0.78	0.62	0.96
	1.04	1.02	0.99	0.98	0.94	0.83	0.99
Latvia	1.05	1.06	1.07	1.00	0.82	0.50	0.86
Lebanon	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.03	0.91	0.75	1.00
Lesotho	1.03	1.01	0.92	0.95	1.15	1.07	0.98
Liberia	1.03	1.02	1.00	0.97	1.03	0.96	1.00
Libya	1.05	1.04	1.04	1.09	0.97	0.86	1.05
Liechtenstein	1.26	1.21	1.03	1.00	0.93	0.85	0.99
Lithuania	1.06	1.05	1.07	0.99	0.80	0.52	0.86
Luxembourg	1.06	1.06	1.05	1.05	1.05	0.82	1.02
(China)	1.05	1.06	1.12	0.81	0.99	0.88	0.90
Madagascar	1.03	1.02	1.01	1.00	0.97	0.83	1.00
Malawi	1.02	0.99	0.98	0.99	0.93	0.78	0.98
Malaysia	1.07	1.06	1.03	1.02	1.03	0.90	1.03
Maldives	1.05	1.04	1.27	1.19	0.92	0.81	1.13
Mali	1.03	1.01	0.91	0.85	1.04	0.99	0.95
Malta	1.04	1.07	1.07	1.08	1.01	0.85	1.01
Marshall Islands	1.05	1.04	1.04	1.04	0.97	0.97	1.03
Mauritania	1.03	1.01	0.96	0.87	0.83	0.73	0.93
Mauritius	1.05	1.04	1.03	1.00	0.91	0.71	0.96
Mexico	1.05	1.05	1.03	0.94	0.84	0.80	0.96
	1.05	1.03	1.00	0.93	0.93	0.82	0.97
	1.06	1.06	1.08	1.04	0.86	0.66	0.96
Monaco	1.03	1.06	1.09	1.03	0.98	0.80	0.94
Mongolia	1.05	1.04	1.03	0.94	0.83	0.67	0.95
Montenegro	1.04	1.08	1.07	0.99	0.96	0.77	0.97
Montserrat (UK)	1.03	1.06	1.10	0.93	0.88	1.26	1.00
Morocco	1.05	1.04	1.01	0.97	0.99	0.94	1.00
Mozambique	1.03	1.03	1.00	0.87	0.95	0.96	0.97
Myanmar	1.06	1.05	1.02	0.96	0.88	0.77	0.97
Namibia	1.03	1.02	1.00	0.93	0.80	0.74	0.96
Nauru	0.84	0.79	0.85	1.03	0.66	0.56	0.88
Nepal	1.06	1.11	1.07	0.82	0.90	0.98	0.96
Netherlands	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.01	0.99	0.83	0.98
New Caledonia (France)	1.05	1.05	1.05	1.02	0.94	0.78	1.00
New Zealand	1.05	1.06	1.07	1.02	0.95	0.88	1.00
Nicaragua	1.05	1.04	1.02	0.91	0.85	0.79	0.95
Niger	1.03	1.02	0.97	0.93	0.98	0.92	0.98
Nigeria	1.06	1.04	1.03	1.00	0.96	0.89	1.02
	1.07	1.07	1.07	1.03	0.97	0.78	0.99
Northern Mariana Islands (US)	1.16	1.17	1.17	1.07	1.19	1.15	1.13
Norway	1.05	1.05	1.05	1.07	1.03	0.87	1.02
Oman	1.05	1.05	1.11	1.33	1.13	0.92	1.18
Pakistan	1.05	1.04	1.05	1.05	1.02	0.86	1.04
Palau	1.07	1.07	1.00	1.58	0.58	0.32	1.07
Panama	1.04	1.04	1.04	1.03	0.99	0.84	1.01
Papua New Guinea	1.05	1.04	1.03	1.05	1.07	0.96	1.04
Paraguay	1.05	1.04	1.01	1.00	1.03	0.89	1.00
Peru	1.05	1.04	1.01	0.92	0.92	0.89	0.96
Philippines	1.05	1.04	1.04	1.04	0.86	0.68	1.01
Poland	1.06	1.06	1.06	1.02	0.91	0.67	0.94
Portugal	1.05	1.05	1.06	0.97	0.84	0.66	0.90
Puerto Rico (US)	1.06	1.04	1.03	0.91	0.85	0.75	0.90
Qatar	1.02	1.02	2.42	5.01	3.40	1.89	3.39
Romania	1.06	1.06	1.05	1.03	0.89	0.68	0.95
	1.06	1.06	1.05	0.97	0.77	0.47	0.86
Rwanda	1.03	1.02	1.01	0.91	0.81	0.67	0.96
(France)	1.06	1.06	1.11	1.19	1.19	1.00	1.12
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)	1.06	1.04	1.04	0.99	0.97	1.04	1.01
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.02	1.00	0.94	1.05	1.01	0.89	1.00
Saint Lucia	1.06	1.06	1.03	0.93	0.86	0.83	0.95
(France)	1.04	0.99	0.97	0.92	0.88	0.78	0.92
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)	1.06	1.07	1.08	0.94	1.07	0.75	0.94
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.03	1.02	1.02	1.08	1.08	0.91	1.04
Samoa	1.05	1.07	1.06	1.05	1.04	0.78	1.04
San Marino	1.09	1.12	1.10	0.89	0.94	0.82	0.94
Sao Tome and Principe	1.03	1.03	1.03	0.97	0.87	0.77	1.00
Saudi Arabia	1.05	1.04	1.09	1.52	1.61	1.12	1.30
Senegal	1.03	1.01	0.99	0.86	0.75	0.77	0.94
Serbia	1.07	1.06	1.07	1.02	0.94	0.72	0.95
Seychelles	1.03	1.06	1.12	1.15	1.02	0.70	1.07
Sierra Leone	1.03	1.00	0.96	0.92	0.90	0.70	0.95
Singapore	1.07	1.05	0.96	0.95	1.00	0.85	0.96
(Netherlands)	1.05	1.08	1.04	0.97	0.90	0.89	0.98
Slovakia	1.07	1.06	1.05	1.02	0.92	0.65	0.94
Slovenia	1.04	1.05	1.08	1.11	0.99	0.76	1.00
Solomon Islands	1.05	1.06	1.06	1.04	1.07	0.88	1.04
Somalia	1.03	1.00	1.01	1.07	1.05	0.66	1.02
South Africa	1.02	1.00	0.97	1.02	0.87	0.72	0.98
	1.05	1.04	1.05	1.05	1.23	1.35	1.06
Spain	1.07	1.06	1.07	1.04	0.96	0.75	0.98
Sri Lanka	1.04	1.04	1.04	0.97	0.86	0.73	0.95
Sudan	1.05	1.03	1.04	0.95	1.04	1.12	1.01
Suriname	1.05	1.04	1.04	1.04	0.98	0.78	1.01
Sweden	1.06	1.06	1.07	1.03	1.01	0.87	1.00
Switzerland	1.06	1.06	1.05	1.00	1.01	0.80	0.98
	1.06	1.05	1.00	0.97	0.97	0.88	1.00
	1.06	1.05	1.05	0.99	0.96	0.83	0.97
Tajikistan	1.05	1.04	1.03	0.99	0.85	0.70	0.99
	1.03	1.02	1.01	1.01	0.86	0.71	1.00
Thailand	1.05	1.05	1.04	0.99	0.88	0.77	0.96
Timor-Leste	1.07	1.06	1.03	0.92	0.94	0.94	1.00
Togo	1.03	1.01	1.00	0.99	0.90	0.76	0.98
Tonga	1.03	1.03	1.05	0.99	1.04	0.81	1.01
Trinidad and Tobago	1.03	1.04	1.09	1.10	1.00	0.78	1.03
Tunisia	1.06	1.07	1.03	0.95	0.98	0.90	0.99
Turkey	1.05	1.05	1.04	1.03	0.98	0.81	1.01
Turkmenistan	1.05	1.03	1.01	0.99	0.88	0.77	0.98
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	1.05	1.04	1.00	1.01	1.11	0.89	1.01
Tuvalu	1.05	1.05	1.07	1.05	0.70	0.62	0.98
Uganda	1.03	1.02	0.94	0.85	0.85	0.75	0.94
Ukraine	1.06	1.06	1.05	0.97	0.76	0.51	0.86
United Arab Emirates	1.06	1.07	1.19	3.27	6.05	3.39	2.56
United Kingdom	1.05	1.05	1.05	1.05	0.98	0.82	0.99
United States	1.05	1.04	1.04	1.01	0.94	0.81	0.97
Uruguay	1.04	1.04	1.03	0.99	0.89	0.67	0.94
Uzbekistan	1.06	1.05	1.05	0.99	0.89	0.75	0.99
Vanuatu	1.05	1.04	0.98	0.95	0.97	0.99	0.99
	--	--	--	--	--	--	All male
	1.05	1.05	1.03	0.99	0.92	0.84	0.99
	1.09	1.11	1.09	1.03	0.88	0.66	1.01
(UK)	1.05	0.97	0.92	0.88	0.94	0.92	0.91
(US)	1.06	1.05	0.95	0.88	0.91	0.81	0.91
Wallis and Futuna (France)	1.05	1.09	1.13	1.05	0.89	0.93	1.04
/Palestine	1.06	1.05	1.04	1.03	1.06	0.85	1.04
Western Sahara	1.04	1.02	1.01	0.97	0.88	0.79	0.99
Yemen	1.05	1.04	1.03	1.05	0.84	0.84	1.02
Zambia	1.03	1.01	1.00	1.01	0.87	0.78	1.00
Zimbabwe	1.03	0.98	0.96	1.05	0.63	0.66	0.96

See also

• List of Chinese administrative divisions by sex ratio
• List of states and union territories of India by sex ratio
• Missing women

Notes and References

1. "Field Listing :: Sex ratio". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2020-05-27.