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The 10 Countries Where Men Most Outnumber Women |
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The UN counts the men and women in every country. In Qatar there are 244 men for every 100 women — the most lopsided population on Earth. No country comes close. And it has almost nothing to do with who was born. |
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Source: UN World Population Prospects, 2024 revision. Total-population sex ratio — men per 100 women. Sovereign states; overseas territories excluded. |
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| What's Surprising |
Biology barely moves. About 105 boys are born for every 100 girls, and men die younger, so most countries settle near 100. Qatar sits at 244. Nothing in nature makes a number like that.
Imported men make it. Qatar built itself with foreign labor — construction crews, oil workers, drivers — and it hired men. About 88% of the people in Qatar are migrants, and most of them are male.
Seven of the top ten are Gulf oil states, each above 150 men per 100 women. The story repeats. Oil money hires foreign muscle, and the muscle is male.
| What's Not Surprising |
Turn the list over and you find the opposite. Russia has 86 men for every 100 women. Across the former Soviet bloc it's the same. Men there die young, from alcohol and the long tail of the Second World War.
India and China tilt the other way, to 106 and 104. That isn't migration. Decades of son preference and sex-selective abortion left both with millions of missing girls.
So one chart holds two distortions. The Gulf imports its men. Asia's giants were born short of women.
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244 Men per 100 women in Qatar, the most lopsided population on Earth. No other country passes 180. |
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105 Boys born for every 100 girls — nature's rate almost everywhere. Higher male death rates then pull the adult count back toward 100. |
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7 of 10 Of the ten most male-skewed countries, seven are Gulf oil states, each above 150 men per 100 women. |
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88% Share of Qatar's residents who are foreign migrants, hired mostly as men. That is what tilts the whole count. |
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86 Men per 100 women in Russia, near the other extreme. Its men die roughly a decade younger than its women. |
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The Gulf's numbers follow its cranes. Qatar's ratio should ease now that the World Cup building is done; Saudi Arabia's could climb as its Vision 2030 megaprojects import millions more workers, most of them men. At the other end, China and India are slowly nudging their birth ratios back toward normal. The UN revises the count every two years. We'll be watching. |
