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Ping Tung

(4,126 posts) Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:25 PM 6 hrs ago

Countries With the Highest Percentage of Male Population World Bank (like below) [View all]

There are likely many explanations but I don't have one.

1 Qatar 72%
2 U.A.E 64%
3 Maldives 62%
4 Oman 62%
5 Bahrain 62%
6 Kuwait 61%
7 Saudi Arabia 61%
8 Seychelles 55%
9 Palau 54%
10 Bhutan 53%
11 Brunei Darussalam 53%
12 Equatorial Guinea 53%
13 Greenland 53%
14 Malaysia 52%
15 Malta 52%
Data sources

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL.MA.ZS?

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Countries With the Highest Percentage of Male Population World Bank (like below) [View all] Ping Tung 6 hrs ago OP

We can take a guess at some of the reasons. Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #1

A lot of these countries rely on tempory immigrant labor, and Jose Garcia 6 hrs ago #2

The Chinese farmers are butt hurt that the Chinese women won't marry them. Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #6

No daughters, no grandchildren Walleye 6 hrs ago #5

I remember when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court Walleye 6 hrs ago #3

In the case of the Gulf countries markodochartaigh 6 hrs ago #4

It is dangerous for a country have a large single male population Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #7

Women in those countries probably don't have many rights, either. Diamond_Dog 5 hrs ago #8