where are the women?
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
United Arab Emirates 31.9% Qatar 32.7 Kuwait 40.0 Bahrain 43.0 Oman 43.8 Saudi Arabia 46.0
highest
Ukraine 54.2% Estonia 54.0 Russian Federation 53.6 Lesotho 53.5 Armenia 53.4 Lithuania 53.4