Population, male

Male population is the percentage of the population that is male. 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
Afghanistan202550.50percent
Albania202549.42percent
Algeria202550.99percent
American Samoa202550.42percent
Andorra202551.10percent
Angola202549.49percent
Antigua and Barbuda202547.61percent
Argentina202549.65percent
Armenia202546.41percent
Aruba202547.23percent

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