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The Gender Ratio of New Zealand (2021 - 2029, males per 100 females)

The Gender ratio of New Zealand attained a value of 98.98 males per 100 females in 2024
The indicator recorded a historical growth (CAGR) of 0.15% between 2021 to 2024, and is expected to grow by...
GlobalData projects the figure to grow at a CAGR of ...

The Gender Ratio of New Zealand (2021 - 2029, males per 100 females)

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Gender Ratio in New Zealand

The gender ratio in New Zealand attained a value of 98 males to 100 females in 2021. The ratio recorded a year-on-year decrease of 0.05% in 2021. Between 2018-2021, the gender ratio in New Zealand increased by 0.1%The number of males per 100 females in the country was highest in the year 2020 and lowest in the year 2018.

Gender Ratio

Gender ratio means the number of females per 1,000 males in each population. The gender ratio is an important characteristic that helps us to study the population of a given area. An unfavorable gender ratio means that there is a lower number of females per 1,000 males in the population. Practices like female foeticide, killing of girls in the womb, female infanticide, killing of girls when they are babies and domestic violence towards women due to gender discrimination led to unfavorable gender ratio. Countries like India Pakistan Afghanistan China and Saudi Arabia have low gender ratios.

This ratio isn't constant, rather, it's influenced by influences in biology, society, technology, culture, and economics, which in turn affects society, demography, and the economy as well as the gender ratio itself.

Gender Ratio: Global Scenario

According to GlobalData, the top ten countries in 2021 with the highest gender ratio in the world are Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Maldives, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Equatorial Guinea, Bhutan, and The Northern Mariana Islands. The countries with the lowest gender ratio in 2021 include Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Nepal, Hong Kong, and Curacao. The average gender ratio was 101 males for 100 females globally in 2021.

In 2021, the male population was 3.97 billion of the world's population, or 50.42% of the total. The global female population was 3.9 billion in the globe, accounting for 49.58% of the total population. There were 65.51 million more men than women on the globe in 2021.

Factors that Affect Gender Ratio:

Discrepancies between men and women's death rates and life expectancy. In general, women live longer than males. This means that assuming everything else is equal, it can be anticipated that women will make up somewhat more than half of the population
Biological gender ratios are not equal. Male births outnumber female births in all nations. This means that assuming everything else is equal, it can be anticipated that men will make up somewhat more than half of the population
The population's gender distribution can be impacted through migration. All else being equal, if there is a considerable quantity of imported male-dominated labor in some countries, it can be anticipated that men will make up most of that labor