Population, female
Female population is the percentage of the population that is female. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
- —
- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 215
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-06
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
United Nations
World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division
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World Bank
Staff estimates, World Bank (WB), note: World Bank staff estimates based on age/sex distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision
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Read from
World Bank
World Development Indicators
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Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 2025 | 49.50 | percent |
| Albania | 2025 | 50.58 | percent |
| Algeria | 2025 | 49.01 | percent |
| American Samoa | 2025 | 49.58 | percent |
| Andorra | 2025 | 48.90 | percent |
| Angola | 2025 | 50.51 | percent |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 2025 | 52.39 | percent |
| Argentina | 2025 | 50.35 | percent |
| Armenia | 2025 | 53.59 | percent |
| Aruba | 2025 | 52.77 | percent |
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