Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2008

Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008

2008, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008 covers 222 countries. Qatar is highest, at 319.8502; Curaçao is lowest, at 84.4679. The middle country reads 98.5877. Against 2007, 222 values changed (116 up, 106 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year

Sex Ratio of the Total Population · Data for 2008

HighestQatar

319.8502

LowestCuraçao

84.4679

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008, 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, 2008: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
QatarQATWestern Asia319.8502
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia212.4059
BahrainBHRWestern Asia162.3338
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia151.4858
OmanOMNWestern Asia138.0885
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia136.1975
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia119.5159
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia116.4542
PalauPLWMicronesia114.3010
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia114.0513
GreenlandGRLNorthern America113.3843
MontserratMSRCaribbean110.2495
AndorraANDSouthern Europe109.6772
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa108.8731
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia108.3590
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia108.1968
Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe107.9496
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa107.7309
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia107.6979
JordanJORWestern Asia107.5447
IndiaINDSouthern Asia107.1641
VanuatuVUTMelanesia106.0668
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean106.0013
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia105.7022
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa105.3430

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Qatar319.8502
  2. United Arab Emirates212.4059
  3. Bahrain162.3338
  4. Saudi Arabia151.4858
  5. Oman138.0885

Lowest

  1. Curaçao84.4679
  2. Latvia84.9082
  3. Georgia85.4124
  4. Armenia85.9657
  5. Russia86.0752

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 98.5877. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 116 · 106rose · 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.

The site’s method

  • 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 2008.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • 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. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (2008). Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/sex-ratio/2008

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest sex ratio in Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008?

Qatar, at 319.8502, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008 cover?

222.

Where can I download Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2008 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Sex Ratio of the Total Population, 2023.

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.