Doug Henwood wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >Also -- is Argentina really that small of a country?
>
> Its GDP is about 3% of the US's, and less than 1% of the world's,
> which puts it on a par with Belgium. Brazil is three times larger;
> China more than three. It has 0.6% of the world's population. I'd say
> that's small.
>
> Speaking of population, while figuring out those numbers, I
> reacquainted myself with the World Bank's numbers on the percent of
> populations that are female. Women aren't the majority of the world's
> population; they're 49.6% of it, because they are neglected and
> aborted in many of the poorer countries. (In the FSU, though, the men
> do themselves in at an early age.) In the U.S., they're 50.7% of the
> population; in high-income countries in general, 50.3%; in the euro
> area, 51.1%. If the female share of the world's population were the
> same as the euro area, there'd be 88 million more in the world.
>
> For the data-minded, here's a summary and a ranking, for the year 2000.
>
> Doug
>
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>
> FEMALE POPULATION, % of total, 2000
>
> 01 World 49.6
> 02 Low income 49.5
> 03 Middle income 49.6
> 04 Lower middle income 49.3
> 05 Upper middle income 50.6
> 06 Low & middle income 49.6
> 07 East Asia & Pacific 49.0
> 08 Europe & Central Asia 52.0
> 09 Latin America & Caribbean 50.6
> 10 Middle East & North Africa 49.4
> 11 South Asia 48.6
> 12 Sub-Saharan Africa 50.5
> 13 High income 50.1
> 14 European Monetary Union 51.1
> 15 High income: OECD 50.3
> 16 High income: nonOECD 47.2
> 17 Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 50.4
> 18 Least developed countries: UN classificat 50.1
>
> Antigua and Barbuda 54.4
> Latvia 54.0
> St. Lucia 53.9
> Ukraine 53.5
> Russian Federation 53.2
> Estonia 53.0
> Belarus 53.0
> Cape Verde 52.9
> Lithuania 52.8
> Moldova 52.5
> Georgia 52.2
> St. Vincent and the Grenadines 52.2
> Hungary 52.2
> Virgin Islands (U.S.) 52.1
> Portugal 52.1
> Swaziland 51.9
> South Africa 51.8
> Puerto Rico 51.8
> Croatia 51.7
> Netherlands Antilles 51.6
> Kazakhstan 51.6
> Uruguay 51.5
> Mozambique 51.5
> Barbados 51.5
> Italy 51.5
> Slovenia 51.4
> Central African Republic 51.4
> Armenia 51.4
> Poland 51.4
> Cambodia 51.3
> Equatorial Guinea 51.3
> France 51.3
> Finland 51.3
> Bulgaria 51.3
> Slovak Republic 51.3
> St. Kitts and Nevis 51.2
> Czech Republic 51.2
> Spain 51.1
> Burundi 51.1
> New Zealand 51.1
> Japan 51.1
> Congo, Rep. 51.1
> Macao, China 51.0
> Grenada 51.0
> Channel Islands 51.0
> Kyrgyz Republic 51.0
> Belgium 51.0
> Romania 51.0
> Germany 50.9
> Azerbaijan 50.9
> Argentina 50.9
> Sierra Leone 50.9
> Haiti 50.9
> Djibouti 50.9
> Botswana 50.9
> United Kingdom 50.9
> El Salvador 50.9
> Lebanon 50.8
> Greece 50.8
> Austria 50.8
> Lesotho 50.7
> United States 50.7
> Benin 50.7
> Nigeria 50.7
> Dominica 50.7
> Mali 50.7
> Guyana 50.6
> Niger 50.6
> Vietnam 50.6
> Guinea-Bissau 50.6
> Gambia 50.6
> Brazil 50.6
> Chad 50.6
> Angola 50.6
> Colombia 50.6
> Gabon 50.5
> Denmark 50.5
> Sri Lanka 50.5
> Mexico 50.5
> Malawi 50.5
> Congo, Dem. Rep. 50.5
> Burkina Faso 50.5
> Bosnia and Herzegovina 50.5
> Rwanda 50.5
> Chile 50.5
> Norway 50.5
> Lao PDR 50.5
> Turkmenistan 50.5
> Mauritania 50.5
> Netherlands 50.4
> Togo 50.4
> Tanzania 50.4
> Canada 50.4
> Zimbabwe 50.4
> Jamaica 50.4
> Switzerland 50.4
> Sweden 50.4
> Eritrea 50.4
> Malta 50.4
> Israel 50.4
> Somalia 50.4
> Suriname 50.4
> Luxembourg 50.3
> Uzbekistan 50.3
> Ireland 50.3
> Peru 50.3
> Ghana 50.3
> Cameroon 50.3
> Bolivia 50.3
> Zambia 50.3
> Nicaragua 50.2
> Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep. 50.2
> Myanmar 50.2
> Belize 50.2
> Comoros 50.2
> Tajikistan 50.2
> Senegal 50.2
> Trinidad and Tobago 50.1
> Namibia 50.1
> Madagascar 50.1
> Indonesia 50.1
> Australia 50.1
> Mauritius 50.0
> Uganda 50.0
> Thailand 50.0
> Macedonia, FYR 50.0
> Sao Tome and Principe 50.0
> Cyprus 50.0
> Bahamas 50.0
> Hong Kong, China 50.0
> Mongolia 50.0
> Morocco 50.0
> Korea, Dem. Rep. 49.9
> Cuba 49.9
> Kenya 49.9
> Sudan 49.8
> Iran, Islamic Rep. 49.8
> Ethiopia 49.8
> Ecuador 49.8
> Singapore 49.7
> Guinea 49.7
> Venezuela, RB 49.7
> Liberia 49.7
> Guatemala 49.6
> Korea, Rep. 49.6
> Honduras 49.6
> Bangladesh 49.6
> Philippines 49.6
> Paraguay 49.6
> Panama 49.6
> Tonga 49.5
> Turkey 49.5
> Syrian Arab Republic 49.5
> Tunisia 49.5
> Kiribati 49.5
> Bhutan 49.4
> Malaysia 49.4
> Algeria 49.4
> Seychelles 49.4
> Costa Rica 49.4
> Nepal 49.3
> Dominican Republic 49.3
> West Bank and Gaza 49.3
> Fiji 49.3
> Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 49.2
> French Polynesia 49.2
> Cote d'Ivoire 49.1
> Iraq 49.1
> Egypt, Arab Rep. 49.1
> Yemen, Rep. 49.0
> Afghanistan 49.0
> Iceland 48.9
> Maldives 48.9
> Albania 48.7
> Samoa 48.5
> Papua New Guinea 48.5
> Libya 48.5
> Solomon Islands 48.4
> China 48.4
> India 48.4
> Jordan 48.2
> Pakistan 48.2
> New Caledonia 48.2
> Guam 48.1
> Brunei 47.9
> Oman 47.4
> Kuwait 46.9
> Vanuatu 46.7
> Saudi Arabia 44.5
> Bahrain 44.1
> Qatar 34.7
> United Arab Emirates 34.0