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Sex ratio at birth (male births per female births)

Name: Sex ratio at birth (male births per female births)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-500, world-bank, population-housing-urbanization, sex, ratio, birth, male, births, per, female, births

Compare sex ratio at birth (male births per female births) across 215 countries or territories using one fixed 2024 World Bank reference slice.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•215 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

1.1male births per female birth

Median: 1.1male births per female birth

Countries Covered

215

with available data

Highest

Liechtenstein

1.2male births per female birth

Lowest

Zambia

1.0male births per female birth

Top 5 Countries

1Liechtenstein1.2male births per female birth

2Northern Mariana Islands1.2male births per female birth

3Azerbaijan1.1male births per female birth

4Vietnam1.1male births per female birth

5People's Republic of China1.1male births per female birth

By Region

Asia1.1male births per female birth(26 countries)

Europe1.1male births per female birth(32 countries)

Oceania1.1male births per female birth(2 countries)

Other1.0male births per female birth(135 countries)

South America1.0male births per female birth(7 countries)

Key Findings

•215 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite male births per female birth observation in the fixed 2024 slice.
•Liechtenstein has the highest published value (1.163 male births per female birth).
•Namibia has the lowest published value (1.011 male births per female birth).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (1.0male births per female birth)High (1.2male births per female birth)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 1.1male births per female birth)

Asia (26)

Europe (32)

Oceania (2)

Other (135)

South America (7)

North America (4)

Africa (9)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Sex ratio at birth refers to male births per female births.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2024 World Bank slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Sex ratio at birth refers to male births per female births.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Liechtenstein	1.2male births per female birth
2	Northern Mariana Islands	1.2male births per female birth
3	Azerbaijan	1.1male births per female birth
4	Vietnam	1.1male births per female birth
5	People's Republic of China	1.1male births per female birth
6	Armenia	1.1male births per female birth
7	Tonga	1.1male births per female birth
8	Macao	1.1male births per female birth
9	Uzbekistan	1.1male births per female birth
10	Hong Kong	1.1male births per female birth
11	Palau	1.1male births per female birth
12	Philippines	1.1male births per female birth
13	Papua New Guinea	1.1male births per female birth
14	The Republic of North Macedonia	1.1male births per female birth
15	Samoa	1.1male births per female birth
16	Brunei Darussalam	1.1male births per female birth
17	Nauru	1.1male births per female birth
18	Fiji	1.1male births per female birth
19	Kiribati	1.1male births per female birth
20	India	1.1male births per female birth
21	Timor-Leste	1.1male births per female birth
22	Cuba	1.1male births per female birth
23	Guam	1.1male births per female birth
24	Vanuatu	1.1male births per female birth
25	Micronesia, Federated States of	1.1male births per female birth
26	Marshall Islands	1.1male births per female birth
27	Tuvalu	1.1male births per female birth
28	Solomon Islands	1.1male births per female birth
29	Serbia	1.1male births per female birth
30	Malta	1.1male births per female birth
31	Albania	1.1male births per female birth
32	Faroe Islands	1.1male births per female birth
33	Montenegro	1.1male births per female birth
34	Turkmenistan	1.1male births per female birth
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.1male births per female birth
36	Myanmar	1.1male births per female birth
37	Georgia	1.1male births per female birth
38	Cyprus	1.1male births per female birth
39	Gibraltar	1.1male births per female birth
40	Malaysia	1.1male births per female birth
41	San Marino	1.1male births per female birth
42	Spain	1.1male births per female birth
43	Greece	1.1male births per female birth
44	Kazakhstan	1.1male births per female birth
45	Thailand	1.1male births per female birth
46	Latvia	1.1male births per female birth
47	Slovenia	1.1male births per female birth
48	Tajikistan	1.1male births per female birth
49	Andorra	1.1male births per female birth
50	Moldova, Republic of	1.1male births per female birth
51	Ukraine	1.1male births per female birth
52	Estonia	1.1male births per female birth
53	Norway	1.1male births per female birth
54	Poland	1.1male births per female birth
55	Bulgaria	1.1male births per female birth
56	Croatia	1.1male births per female birth
57	Indonesia	1.1male births per female birth
58	North Korea	1.1male births per female birth
59	Singapore	1.1male births per female birth
60	American Samoa	1.1male births per female birth
61	Belarus	1.1male births per female birth
62	French Polynesia	1.1male births per female birth
63	Hungary	1.1male births per female birth
64	Iceland	1.1male births per female birth
65	Italy	1.1male births per female birth
66	South Korea	1.1male births per female birth
67	New Caledonia	1.1male births per female birth
68	Yemen	1.1male births per female birth
69	Iraq	1.1male births per female birth
70	Libya	1.1male births per female birth
71	Portugal	1.1male births per female birth
72	Russian Federation	1.1male births per female birth
73	Denmark	1.1male births per female birth
74	Germany	1.1male births per female birth
75	Ireland	1.1male births per female birth
76	Kyrgyzstan	1.1male births per female birth
77	Romania	1.1male births per female birth
78	Sweden	1.1male births per female birth
79	Australia	1.1male births per female birth
80	Canada	1.1male births per female birth
81	Ethiopia	1.1male births per female birth
82	Israel	1.1male births per female birth
83	Pakistan	1.1male births per female birth
84	Slovakia	1.1male births per female birth
85	Egypt	1.1male births per female birth
86	United Kingdom	1.1male births per female birth
87	Uruguay	1.1male births per female birth
88	Austria	1.1male births per female birth
89	Czech Republic	1.1male births per female birth
90	Cambodia	1.1male births per female birth
91	Lao People's Democratic Republic	1.1male births per female birth
92	Lebanon	1.1male births per female birth
93	Luxembourg	1.1male births per female birth
94	Netherlands	1.1male births per female birth
95	New Zealand	1.1male births per female birth
96	Panama	1.1male births per female birth
97	Syrian Arab Republic	1.1male births per female birth
98	Virgin Islands, British	1.1male births per female birth
99	Finland	1.1male births per female birth
100	Islamic Republic of Iran	1.1male births per female birth
101	Lithuania	1.1male births per female birth
102	Puerto Rico	1.1male births per female birth
103	Venezuela	1.1male births per female birth
104	State of Palestine	1.1male births per female birth
105	Honduras	1.1male births per female birth
106	Japan	1.1male births per female birth
107	Maldives	1.1male births per female birth
108	Saudi Arabia	1.1male births per female birth
109	Switzerland	1.1male births per female birth
110	Afghanistan	1.1male births per female birth
111	Argentina	1.1male births per female birth
112	Belize	1.1male births per female birth
113	France	1.1male births per female birth
114	Greenland	1.1male births per female birth
115	Paraguay	1.1male births per female birth
116	Tunisia	1.1male births per female birth
117	Türkiye	1.1male births per female birth
118	Isle of Man	1.1male births per female birth
119	Jordan	1.0male births per female birth
120	Monaco	1.0male births per female birth
121	Nepal	1.0male births per female birth
122	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.0male births per female birth
123	United States of America	1.0male births per female birth
124	Bangladesh	1.0male births per female birth
125	Belgium	1.0male births per female birth
126	El Salvador	1.0male births per female birth
127	Bhutan	1.0male births per female birth
128	Kuwait	1.0male births per female birth
129	Morocco	1.0male births per female birth
130	Curaçao	1.0male births per female birth
131	Colombia	1.0male births per female birth
132	Costa Rica	1.0male births per female birth
133	Ecuador	1.0male births per female birth
134	Algeria	1.0male births per female birth
135	Guinea	1.0male births per female birth
136	United Arab Emirates	1.0male births per female birth
137	Brazil	1.0male births per female birth
138	Sri Lanka	1.0male births per female birth
139	Dominican Republic	1.0male births per female birth
140	Mongolia	1.0male births per female birth
141	Oman	1.0male births per female birth
142	Somalia	1.0male births per female birth
143	Chile	1.0male births per female birth
144	Aruba	1.0male births per female birth
145	Chad	1.0male births per female birth
146	Benin	1.0male births per female birth
147	Burkina Faso	1.0male births per female birth
148	Bolivia	1.0male births per female birth
149	Peru	1.0male births per female birth
150	Qatar	1.0male births per female birth
151	Sudan	1.0male births per female birth
152	Niger	1.0male births per female birth
153	Guinea-Bissau	1.0male births per female birth
154	Saint Martin (French part)	1.0male births per female birth
155	South Africa	1.0male births per female birth
156	Suriname	1.0male births per female birth
157	Trinidad and Tobago	1.0male births per female birth
158	Bermuda	1.0male births per female birth
159	Grenada	1.0male births per female birth
160	Guatemala	1.0male births per female birth
161	Jamaica	1.0male births per female birth
162	Mexico	1.0male births per female birth
163	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1.0male births per female birth
164	Virgin Islands, U.S.	1.0male births per female birth
165	Ghana	1.0male births per female birth
166	Liberia	1.0male births per female birth
167	Madagascar	1.0male births per female birth
168	Nigeria	1.0male births per female birth
169	Bahrain	1.0male births per female birth
170	Djibouti	1.0male births per female birth
171	Guyana	1.0male births per female birth
172	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1.0male births per female birth
173	Cayman Islands	1.0male births per female birth
174	Seychelles	1.0male births per female birth
175	Dominica	1.0male births per female birth
176	Mauritius	1.0male births per female birth
177	Nicaragua	1.0male births per female birth
178	South Sudan	1.0male births per female birth
179	Barbados	1.0male births per female birth
180	Sierra Leone	1.0male births per female birth
181	Cape Verde	1.0male births per female birth
182	Mali	1.0male births per female birth
183	Mauritania	1.0male births per female birth
184	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.0male births per female birth
185	Central African Republic	1.0male births per female birth
186	Comoros	1.0male births per female birth
187	Equatorial Guinea	1.0male births per female birth
188	Eritrea	1.0male births per female birth
189	Republic of The Gambia	1.0male births per female birth
190	Antigua and Barbuda	1.0male births per female birth
191	Botswana	1.0male births per female birth
192	Haiti	1.0male births per female birth
193	Saint Lucia	1.0male births per female birth
194	Senegal	1.0male births per female birth
195	United Republic of Tanzania	1.0male births per female birth
196	Cameroon	1.0male births per female birth
197	Cote d'Ivoire	1.0male births per female birth
198	Eswatini	1.0male births per female birth
199	Uganda	1.0male births per female birth
200	Lesotho	1.0male births per female birth
201	Togo	1.0male births per female birth
202	Angola	1.0male births per female birth
203	Bahamas	1.0male births per female birth
204	Sao Tome and Principe	1.0male births per female birth
205	Republic of the Congo	1.0male births per female birth
206	Rwanda	1.0male births per female birth
207	Burundi	1.0male births per female birth
208	Zimbabwe	1.0male births per female birth
209	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.0male births per female birth
210	Gabon	1.0male births per female birth
211	Kenya	1.0male births per female birth
212	Mozambique	1.0male births per female birth
213	Malawi	1.0male births per female birth
214	Namibia	1.0male births per female birth
215	Zambia	1.0male births per female birth

Showing 215 of 215 countries

Topics

#trend-research-500 #world-bank #population-housing-urbanization #sex #ratio #birth #male #births #per #female #births

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2024).

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