Country

Year

Total

Men

Women

men/100 women

Afghanistan

2012

46

4

4

98

Albania

2012

22

13

14

91

Algeria

2012

27

7

8

84

American Samoa

2012

**

34

7

8

91

Andorra

2011

*

a

15

18

19

101

Angola

2012

46

4

4

83

Anguilla

2001

*

b

28

10

11

88

Antigua and Barbuda

2005

*

c

28

9

10

79

Argentina

2012

24

13

17

73

Armenia

2012

20

13

17

64

Aruba

2012

18

14

17

77

Australia¹

2012

19

18

21

89

Austria

2012

14

21

26

77

Azerbaijan²

2012

21

8

10

75

Bahamas

2012

22

10

12

75

Bahrain

2012

20

3

4

127

Bangladesh

2012

30

7

7

96

Barbados

2012

17

15

19

75

Belarus

2012

15

14

23

53

Belgium

2012

17

22

26

80

Belize

2012

34

6

6

91

Benin

2012

43

4

5

71

Bermuda

2010

*

a

17

17

20

74

Bhutan

2012

28

7

7

107

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

2012

35

7

8

82

Bosnia and Herzegovina

2012

14

18

22

77

Botswana

2012

32

6

7

78

Brazil

2012

24

10

12

81

British Virgin Islands

2001

*

b

26

7

7

109

Brunei Darussalam

2012

26

7

6

113

Bulgaria

2012

14

22

28

72

Burkina Faso

2012

45

3

4

68

Burundi

2012

37

4

5

69

Cambodia

2012

31

5

8

64

Cameroon

2012

40

5

6

85

Canada

2012

16

19

22

85

Cape Verde

2012

30

6

9

65

Cayman Islands

2010

*

d

18

8

9

92

Central African Republic

2012

40

5

7

80

Chad

2012

45

4

5

84

Channel Islands³

2012

15

22

26

85

Chile

2012

21

12

15

80

China⁴

2012

19

12

14

95

China, Hong Kong SAR⁵

2012

11

19

19

90

China, Macao SAR⁶

2012

13

13

11

109

Colombia

2012

28

8

10

80

Comoros

2012

43

4

5

86

Congo

2012

41

5

6

86

Cook Islands

2012

**

27

12

13

98

Costa Rica

2012

24

10

11

91

Côte d'Ivoire

2012

40

6

6

117

Croatia

2012

15

21

27

70

Cuba

2012

17

17

19

90

Cyprus⁷

2012

17

15

19

86

Czech Republic

2012

14

20

26

74

Dem. People's Republic of Korea

2012

22

11

16

63

Democratic Republic of the Congo

2012

46

4

5

81

Denmark

2012

18

22

25

86

Djibouti

2012

35

5

6

84

Dominica

2006

*

c

29

12

15

80

Dominican Republic

2012

30

9

9

96

Ecuador

2012

30

9

10

89

Egypt

2012

31

8

9

85

El Salvador

2012

31

9

11

75

Equatorial Guinea

2012

39

5

4

111

Eritrea

2012

42

3

5

64

Estonia

2012

16

18

28

55

Ethiopia

2012

40

5

6

87

Faeroe Islands

2008

*

a

22

18

21

95

Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

2006

*

b

16

14

14

117

Fiji

2012

29

8

9

91

Finland⁸

2012

16

23

28

79

France

2012

18

21

26

78

French Guiana

2012

33

8

8

101

French Polynesia

2012

24

10

10

96

Gabon

2012

35

6

7

92

Gambia

2012

43

4

3

110

Georgia⁹

2012

17

17

22

66

Germany

2012

13

24

29

80

Ghana

2012

38

6

6

94

Gibraltar

2001

*

b

18

18

23

76

Greece

2012

15

22

27

81

Greenland

2011

*

a

22

11

11

117

Grenada

2012

27

8

11

75

Guadeloupe¹⁰

2012

22

17

19

77

Guam

2012

27

11

12

91

Guatemala

2012

41

6

7

87

Guinea

2012

43

5

6

86

Guinea-Bissau

2012

41

5

6

86

Guyana

2012

31

6

8

76

Haiti

2012

35

6

7

84

Honduras

2012

36

6

7

91

Hungary

2012

15

19

27

64

Iceland

2012

21

17

18

91

India

2012

30

7

9

92

Indonesia

2012

26

8

9

83

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

2012

23

8

8

102

Iraq

2012

43

4

6

73

Ireland

2012

22

16

18

88

Isle of Man

2011

*

d

18

e

16

f

19

f

83

Israel

2012

27

14

17

80

Italy

2012

14

24

30

78

Jamaica

2012

28

10

11

88

Japan

2012

13

29

34

79

Jordan

2012

36

6

6

103

Kazakhstan

2012

25

8

13

55

Kenya

2012

42

4

5

84

Kiribati

2012

**

34

5

7

72

Kuwait

2012

27

4

4

164

Kyrgyzstan

2012

30

5

7

70

Lao People's Democratic Republic

2012

33

5

7

82

Latvia

2012

14

18

28

54

Lebanon

2012

24

10

11

84

Lesotho

2012

37

5

7

67

Liberia

2012

43

4

5

82

Libya

2012

31

7

7

98

Liechtenstein

2011

*

a

16

19

21

87

Lithuania

2012

15

16

26

55

Luxembourg

2012

18

17

21

83

Madagascar

2012

42

5

5

90

Malawi

2012

46

4

5

83

Malaysia¹¹

2012

29

8

9

97

Maldives

2012

25

7

7

111

Mali

2012

47

3

4

70

Malta

2012

14

21

25

82

Marshall Islands

2012

**

41

4

5

99

Martinique

2012

19

19

22

75

Mauritania

2012

39

4

5

76

Mauritius¹²

2012

21

10

13

78

Mayotte

2012

47

3

3

112

Mexico

2012

28

9

10

87

Micronesia (Fed. States of)

2012

36

6

7

89

Monaco

2000

*

d

13

26

32

78

Mongolia

2012

28

5

7

76

Montenegro

2012

19

16

20

77

Montserrat

2011

*

b

19

19

21

103

Morocco

2012

27

8

9

88

Mozambique

2012

44

5

6

77

Myanmar

2012

25

8

9

83

Namibia

2012

36

5

7

76

Nauru

2012

**

35

3

3

93

Nepal

2012

35

6

7

81

Netherlands

2012

17

21

24

85

Netherlands Antilles¹³

2012

20

15

17

77

New Caledonia

2012

25

12

13

92

New Zealand

2012

20

18

20

88

Nicaragua

2012

33

6

7

86

Niger

2012

49

4

4

94

Nigeria

2012

43

5

6

89

Niue

2012

**

24

15

19

73

Northern Mariana Islands

2012

**

26

7

7

95

Norway¹⁴

2012

19

20

23

86

Occupied Palestinian Territory¹⁵

2012

41

4

5

94

Oman

2012

27

4

5

138

Pakistan

2012

34

7

6

105

Palau

2012

**

20

9

11

91

Panama

2012

28

10

11

93

Papua New Guinea

2012

38

4

5

81

Paraguay

2012

33

8

8

95

Peru

2012

29

9

10

87

Philippines

2012

35

5

7

79

Poland

2012

15

17

24

68

Portugal

2012

15

22

27

76

Puerto Rico

2012

21

17

20

76

Qatar

2012

14

2

3

245

Republic of Korea

2012

16

15

19

77

Republic of Moldova¹⁶

2012

17

14

19

67

Réunion

2012

25

11

13

82

Romania

2012

15

18

24

71

Russian Federation

2012

16

14

23

53

Rwanda

2012

43

4

5

84

Saint Helena ¹⁷

2008

*

c

15

23

23

105

Saint Kitts and Nevis

2000

*

c

31

10

12

89

Saint Lucia

2012

25

9

11

77

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

2006

*

b

19

15

21

70

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

2012

26

9

11

87

Samoa

2012

37

7

9

82

San Marino

2004

*

c

15

20

23

82

Sao Tome and Principe

2012

39

5

6

76

Saudi Arabia

2012

30

5

5

110

Senegal

2012

43

4

4

87

Serbia¹⁸

2012

17

18

23

80

Seychelles

2011

*

c

22

9

12

72

Sierra Leone

2012

43

4

4

97

Singapore

2012

16

15

16

90

Slovakia

2012

15

15

21

67

Slovenia

2012

14

20

27

73

Solomon Islands

2012

39

5

6

92

Somalia

2012

45

4

5

85

South Africa

2012

30

6

9

68

Spain¹⁹

2012

15

20

25

79

Sri Lanka

2012

25

12

14

85

Sudan²⁰

2012

40

5

6

89

Suriname

2012

28

8

11

79

Swaziland

2012

37

5

6

76

Sweden

2012

17

24

27

87

Switzerland

2012

15

21

25

81

Syrian Arab Republic

2012

35

6

7

94

Tajikistan

2012

36

4

6

77

TFYR Macedonia²¹

2012

17

16

19

80

Thailand

2012

20

13

15

83

Timor-Leste

2012

45

5

5

90

Togo

2012

39

5

6

85

Tokelau

2012

**

32

11

14

84

Tonga

2012

37

7

9

76

Trinidad and Tobago

2012

20

9

13

68

Tunisia

2012

23

10

11

93

Turkey

2012

26

9

10

83

Turkmenistan

2012

29

5

7

73

Turks and Caicos Islands

2001

*

b

29

5

6

85

Tuvalu

2012

**

31

7

10

68

Uganda

2012

48

3

4

82

Ukraine

2012

15

16

25

54

United Arab Emirates

2012

17

2

1

292

United Kingdom

2012

17

21

25

84

United Republic of Tanzania²²

2012

45

4

5

82

United States of America

2012

20

17

21

80

United States Virgin Islands

2012

20

21

24

80

Uruguay

2012

22

16

21

69

Uzbekistan

2012

28

6

7

79

Vanuatu

2012

38

6

6

103

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

2012

29

9

10

89

Viet Nam

2012

23

8

10

74

Wallis and Futuna Islands

2012

**

26

13

14

94

Western Sahara

2012

28

5

4

129

Yemen

2012

44

4

4

84

Zambia

2012

47

4

5

81

Zimbabwe

2012

38

5

7

75

Footnotes

*

Data compiled by the United Nations Demographic Yearbook system. Data refer to the latest available census, except where noted.

**

Data compiled by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Demography Programme.

a

De jure estimate.

b

De facto population count.

c

De facto estimate.

d

De jure population count.

e

Refer to age 0-15

f

Refer to age 65+

1

Including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island.

2

Including Nagorno-Karabakh.

3

Refers to Guernsey, and Jersey.

4

For statistical purposes, the data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao, Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of China.

5

As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.

6

As of 20 December 1999, Macao became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.

7

Including Northern-Cyprus.

8

Including Åland Islands.

9

Including Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

10

Including Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin (French part).

11

Including Sabah and Sarawak.

12

Including Agalega, Rodrigues, and Saint Brandon.

13

Refers to Curaçao, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius.

14

Including Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.

15

Including East Jerusalem.

16

Including Transnistria.

17

Including Saint Helena ex. Dep (Refers to de facto national estimate), Ascension (Refers to de jure national estimate), and Tristan da Cunha (Refers to de facto national estimate).

18

Including Kosovo.

19

Including Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.

20

Including Southern Sudan which voted in favor of independence, but was not an official UN Member State as of May 2011.

21

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

22

Including Zanzibar.

Sources:

Calculated by the United Nations Statistics Division based on data published by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011), World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. available in http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm; supplemented by official national statistics published in the United Nations Demographic Yearbook, available from the United Nations Statistics Division website, http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/default.htm and data compiled by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Statistics and Demography Programme, available from the SPC website, http://www.spc.int/sdp.

Technical notes:

The percentage of population under 15 years refers to the percentage of the total population aged 0 to 14 years. The percentage of the female and male population aged 60+ refer to the percentage of the female population who are 60 years and older and the percentage of the male population who are 60 years and older, respectively.

The medium variant projections for 2012 refer to 1 July of the given year and assume the following: Total fertility in all countries eventually converges toward a level of 1.85 children per woman by the end of the projection period (2010-2050). However, not all countries reach this level during the projection period. The basic principle of the fertility projection is the same for all countries, but projection procedures are slightly different depending on whether countries had a total fertility above or below 1.85 children per woman in 2010-2015. Mortality is projected on the basis of models of change of life expectancy that produce smaller gains the higher the life expectancy already reached. The selection of the model for each country is based on recent trends in life expectancy by sex. For the 60 countries highly affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS are made by explicitly modeling the course of the epidemic and by projecting the yearly incidence of HIV infection. International migration is projected on the basis of past international migration estimates and an assessment of the policy stance of countries with regard to future international migration flows.

Estimates of the population by age and sex are prepared by the Population Divison of the United Nations Secretariat and revised every two years in order to incorporate new data. In general, these population figures are estimates of persons resident in the country or area at mid-year. They are usually based on population census data adjusted to the specified year, taking account of birth, death and international migration rates as determined from population surveys and registers and other national sources available.