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Post by confuzzled dude Sat Aug 22, 2015 5:00 pm

But a map by the Pew Research Center with the latest U.N. data clearly shows that men and women are distributed unequally around the globe. In former Soviet republics, for example, women outnumber men. Conversely, there are more men than women in Asia, Arab countries and Northern Africa.

Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Estonia are among the countries with the largest female populations. The same countries also lead world statistics in the life-expectancy gap between men and women. In Belarus, men have a life expectancy of 65.3 years, while it's 77 years for women. Only war-torn Syria has a bigger life-expectancy gap between men and women.

The national differences between male and female populations change with age. In Russia, for example, there are more newborn boys than girls each year, and men continue to outnumber women until age 31. But from age 32 onward, there are more women than men, with the gap widening every year.

Much of the gender discrepancy can be explained by history. The demographics of the former Soviet republics have been greatly influenced by their 2oth-century history. According to the very first census conducted in Russia, there were 98.9 men for every 100 women in 1897. It almost matches today's gender ratio in the United States. (98.3 men for 100 women).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/19/see-where-women-outnumber-men-around-the-world-and-why/?hpid=z6

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