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.

  1. Produced by

    United Nations

    World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    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

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202549.50percent
Albania202550.58percent
Algeria202549.01percent
American Samoa202549.58percent
Andorra202548.90percent
Angola202550.51percent
Antigua and Barbuda202552.39percent
Argentina202550.35percent
Armenia202553.59percent
Aruba202552.77percent

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