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Sex ratio by country for total population. Blue represents more males than the world average of 1.07 males/females. (2020) 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.
Blue represents more men and boys, red more women and girls than the world average of 1.01 males/female. Sex ratio by country for the over-65 population. Blue represents more men, red more women than the world average of 0.81 males/female. The human sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population in the context of anthropology and ...
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]
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As of 2020, the global sex ratio is approximately 1.01 males to 1 female. [72] Approximately 24.7% of the global population is aged under 15, while 65.2% is aged 15–64 and 10.1% is aged 65 or over. [72] The median age of the world's population is estimated to be 31 years in 2020, [9] and is expected to rise to 37.9 years by 2050. [73]
In the WEF’s 17th annual Global Gender Gap report, the US ranked 43rd in gender equality out of 146 countries – a decline from 27th last year.
The tertiary sex ratio is equivalent to the adult sex ratio (ASR), which is defined as the ratio of adult males to females in a population. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The operational sex ratio (OSR) is the ratio of sexually active males to females in a population, and is therefore derived from a subset of the individuals included when calculating the ASR. [ 7 ]
The following list sorts countries and dependent territories by their net reproduction rate.The net reproduction rate (R 0) is the number of surviving daughters per woman and an important indicator of the population's reproductive rate.