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Countries with Extra Men

Name the countries of the world that have the greatest absolute difference between their male and female populations.
Source: CIA World Factbook (2020), Worldometers (2022)
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First submittedSeptember 26, 2015
Times taken24,390
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Extra Men
Country
54.2 mil
India
42.5 mil
China
4.69 mil
Saudi Arabia
4.51 mil
Pakistan
4.44 mil
United Arab Emirates
2.60 mil
Egypt
2.15 mil
Nigeria
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Country
1.62 mil
Qatar
1.27 mil
Iran
703 k
Kuwait
673 k
Algeria
603 k
Afghanistan
560 k
Philippines
543 k
Jordan
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Country
493 k
Vietnam
491 k
Malaysia
444 k
Oman
429 k
Turkey
383 k
Bahrain
334 k
South Sudan
kalbahamut
+27
Level 82
Oct 6, 2017
Oh man, forgot Oman
idontlikeit2
+21
Level 74
Oct 6, 2017
*slow claps*
Malbaby
+41
Level 71
Oct 6, 2017
Extra Men countries such as India, Pakistan, China etc. haven't got any special way of having male children. The excess of men is equal to the loss of women, or more accurately girls. This is a very sad statistic and is one of the worlds great shames.
onufriy
+2
Level 93
May 23, 2020
In fact, there is. You could find out the sex in a very early pregnancy stage. Such tests though are not legal in Europe, mostly sure in the Americas as well.
gustavo11
+5
Level 70
Aug 21, 2022
I think the statistics for China actually has a major influence of one-child policy. Parents generally have preference for a male kid rather than a female. Of course, it alone does not explain the gender gap, but it is still important.
joeythelemur
+21
Level 84
Aug 22, 2022
That's exactly Mal's point. The one-child policy influenced families to abort females or give them away, in preference for a male heir. Do that for a couple generations and you have 40 million extra men. It's been a travesty and demographic disaster.
Jezilly
+21
Level 77
Oct 8, 2017
This list made me sad. I just had to think of all the countries that have the worst treatment of women, or value men significantly over women and I got almost all besides Bhutan and Palau.
kalbahamut
+15
Level 82
Oct 9, 2017
That's a big part. It also has to do with inadequate health services for women. In the Gulf States it might also have to do with large pools of mostly male laborers imported from other countries, often without their families. Consider that there are only 1.7 million Emirati citizens living in the UAE, for example, yet the number of "extra" men there estimated on the quiz is 3.8 million.
Guam
+3
Level 60
Jun 4, 2018
Extra men? We could surely make a meme out of this.
GeoDude
+10
Level 48
Feb 20, 2019
Where is the quiz for most women?

Asking for a friend

WillemLAif
+8
Level 76
Apr 2, 2019
Tell your friend to visit Ukraine or Vietnam. Problem solved.
MarcellDAvis
+5
Level 75
Aug 31, 2022
Or Russia. Many single women in Russia since beginning of this year.
K7vn
+3
Level 66
Nov 26, 2022
Vietnam - not anymore apparently
takmike
+4
Level 52
Aug 17, 2019
lots of extra woman in eastern europe, lots of extra men in india and china! Lets make a match!
MichaelPeblo
+10
Level 46
Jan 23, 2021
Please don't. And I'm not even from Eastern Europe.
Putjesscheppert
+20
Level 62
Dec 1, 2020
I can't be the only one that finds this quiz quite horrific to see. I just don't want to think about what happened to the millions of poor girls. :(
EvanAviator
+7
Level 59
Apr 6, 2021
what? They dont kill women, it just happens that more males are born/reside in these countries than females. Most western countries have more females than males but I dont think its related to how they treat women
kitsims
+28
Level 82
Mar 15, 2022
You're broadly correct in that it's often down to other factors (especially in the Middle East where the imbalance is often due to large numbers of male immigrant workers) but sex-selective abortion is definitely a thing in many countries, and I'm afraid female infanticide has also been recorded in places that place significant emphasis on valuing males.
APHill
+16
Level 75
Aug 24, 2022
They don't kill women? Are you that naive? Absent a fraction of smaller factors (like immigrant workers, which are a non-issue in China/India), this is down to the killing of girls both in and out of the womb.
MarcellDAvis
+7
Level 75
Aug 31, 2022
It's pretty much all Muslim countries with only a few exceptions. Unless Religion suddenly affects genetics, I find it hard to believe that this is a coincidence.
kalbahamut
+7
Level 82
Nov 14, 2022
I got handed many different pamphlets in my years in Saudi Arabia with Islamic apologism and propaganda... had quite the collection going after 6 years... in one of my favorites, entitled "Teach Your Children to Love the Prophet Muhammad," they devoted a full 3 pages to going on, and on, and on about what an amazing guy Muhammad was for, upon hearing the news that his newly born infants were daughters, *not* immediately rushing to bury them alive in the desert.

This left me pondering several things. Including: 1. good grief that is a low bar to clear. Are there really so few reasons to love this guy that they have to devote this much page space to him *not* murdering (his own) babies? (yes) 2. they made it sound like Muhammad's behavior was revolutionary and novel. Which left me questioning the veracity of the story. Since... how long could a culture survive even a generation after female infanticide becomes routine?

CardinalSin
+6
Level 77
Nov 14, 2022
Yes, to add to what kitsims, APHill and kalbahamut have already said, I would also like to point out that there is unequal access to good medical care. I read a paper on survival from serious injury amongst children in Pakistan and was stunned - and appalled - by the size of the discrepancy in mortality between the genders.
dr02
+2
Level 65
Nov 15, 2022
@kalbahamut Female infanticide was a widespread practice in pre-Islamic Arabia, and the Prophet Muhammad put a stop to it. I don't understand why you think stopping a horrible practice isn't worthy of praise.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Nov 21, 2022
You seem like a highly credulous individual and are no doubt a dutiful and obedient religious adherent. But, I think you missed my point.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Nov 21, 2022
You end up getting told a lot of "interesting" things when you live in a culture that is so internationally notorious for its outrageous misogyny that it becomes simultaneously hellbent on trying to prove that they invented feminism or something. No, I'm serious, I actually got told that multiple times.
Findlay
+6
Level 82
Aug 20, 2022
When one considers the size of the populations of those Gulf States, those imbalances are just massive. I suspect if you just count, for example, Emirati citizens then that country's imbalance would be significantly less.
iRDM
+4
Level 76
Aug 22, 2022
so this is why the "send bobs and vagene" meme exists
hwes
+2
Level 85
Aug 26, 2022
Although the middle east countries are here because of the importaton of male labourers, for the Philippines its the opposte; the export of female workers esp in the nursing profession.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Nov 14, 2022
yes. Though a lot of Filipino males go work overseas, too. Often as IT professionals, drivers, or unskilled laborers. But they are greatly outnumbered by the millions of Filipina nurses, secretaries, au pares, and housemaids.
mightythor
+2
Level 66
Nov 14, 2022
In China and India the extra few million is a small percentage, whereas in Qatar, it represents a ratio of 3 men for every woman.
JWatson24
+5
Level 71
Nov 14, 2022
Even if it is a small percentage (although I'd dispute this), that doesn't change the fact that it's a major problem. Between China and India, there are nearly 100 million extra men, men who theoretically will never be able to find women to marry and settle down, something that is basically a requirement for a normal life in most Asian cultures. Sexism towards women ends up hurting men in the long run too.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Nov 14, 2022
I only missed my country—Malaysia 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
ornei
+2
Level 62
Nov 14, 2022
I'm surprised Afghanistan and South Sudan made it on the list. I would've thought they had enough war to keep the male population down.
CorkSpork
+1
Level 72
Nov 14, 2022
Thought the same thing as I was guessing them towards the end. Perhaps because more women left as refugees?
Julotek
+1
Level 60
Nov 14, 2022
Well unfortunately, many countries where being a woman provides you less rights than being a man...
maur85
+2
Level 72
Nov 15, 2022
Not sure what the big deal is with China. If you divide its population by half and give one half a 6% advantage (in line with the world average of extra male births, an interesting fact I'm aware of thanks to JetPunk), the gap adds up to 42.3 million. No massive disproportion there. As far as the one child policy is concerned, rural families (who are more likely to prefer a male) are actually sort of exempt, in that they're allowed a second child if the first one is a girl. Also, someone mentioned early stage sex detection tests being illegal in Europe, whereas elsewhere they are performed and lead to females being aborted. Can't speak for all of Europe, but in the UK you can find out the sex at 20 weeks (sooner if you pay for a private scan) and be well within the abortion limit.
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