[lbo-talk] where are the women?

[Doug Henwood]

I was just looking at the sex ratios for the populations of various  
countries, and discovered an amazing thing - the extraordinarily low  
percentage of women in certain Arab countries. Where did all the  
women go?

I understand the predominance of the fSU countries at the other end,  
though - the men drank themselves to death.

COUNTRIES RANKED BY SHARE OF FEMALES IN POPULATION
2005 data, World Bank

lowest
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United Arab Emirates         31.9%
Qatar                        32.7
Kuwait                       40.0
Bahrain                      43.0
Oman                         43.8
Saudi Arabia                 46.0

highest
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Ukraine                      54.2%
Estonia                      54.0
Russian Federation           53.6
Lesotho                      53.5
Armenia                      53.4
Lithuania                    53.4