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Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 1999

1999, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The sex ratio of the total population is the number of males for every 100 females, counting people of all ages. Near 100 means roughly equal numbers; above 100, more men; below, more women.

Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 1999 covers 222 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 222.006; Georgia is lowest, at 84.529. The middle country reads 98.376. Against 1998, 222 values changed (104 up, 118 down), the same countries are covered.

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Sex Ratio of the Total Population · Data for 1999

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

222.006

LowestGeorgia

84.529

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 1999, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 1999: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia222.006
QatarQATWestern Asia213.917
BahrainBHRWestern Asia144.501
OmanOMNWestern Asia141.073
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia139.879
PalauPLWMicronesia119.593
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia118.051
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia117.363
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa115.759
GreenlandGRLNorthern America115.117
MontserratMSRCaribbean111.138
JordanJORWestern Asia110.418
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia110.279
VanuatuVUTMelanesia109.829
AndorraANDSouthern Europe109.459
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia108.938
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia107.559
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia107.517
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia107.264
NauruNRUMicronesia107.179
IndiaINDSouthern Asia107.132
SamoaWSMPolynesia107.005
Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe106.950
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia106.756
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa106.435

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. United Arab Emirates222.006
  2. Qatar213.917
  3. Bahrain144.501
  4. Oman141.073
  5. Kuwait139.879

Lowest

  1. Georgia84.529
  2. Latvia85.358
  3. Moldova86.566
  4. Estonia87.231
  5. Ukraine87.354

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 98.376. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 104 · 118rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1999.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1999). Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/sex-ratio/1999

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