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Female population is the percentage of the population that is female. Population is based on the de facto definition of population.

Rank	Country	Value
Population, female (% of total) - Population - Education Statistics (2010)
1	Ukraine	53.90
2	Latvia	53.88
3	Estonia	53.87
4	Russia	53.82
5	Netherlands Antilles	53.64
6	Belarus	53.53
7	Armenia	53.39
8	Lithuania	53.16
9	Georgia	53
10	El Salvador	52.89
11	Lesotho	52.73
12	Hong Kong	52.64
13	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	52.64
14	Hungary	52.53
15	Moldova	52.51
16	Kazakhstan	52.41
17	Macau	52.33
18	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	52.21
19	Cape Verde	52.16
20	Puerto Rico	52.06
21	Aruba	52.06
22	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.88
23	Croatia	51.81
24	Poland	51.79
25	Uruguay	51.74
26	Bulgaria	51.69
27	Zimbabwe	51.62
28	Portugal	51.57
29	Rwanda	51.54
30	Slovakia	51.49
31	Barbados	51.45
32	Trinidad and Tobago	51.44
33	Romania	51.41
34	France	51.37
35	Italy	51.33
36	Japan	51.31
37	Mozambique	51.30
38	Cyprus	51.28
39	Guatemala	51.27
40	Sierra Leone	51.27
41	Austria	51.20
42	Switzerland	51.19
43	Burma	51.17
44	Slovenia	51.14
45	Bahamas	51.10
46	Azerbaijan	51.08
47	Upper middle income	51.08
48	Jamaica	51.06
49	Channel Islands	51.05
50	Lebanon	51.05
51	St. Lucia	51.05
52	Swaziland	51.04
53	Euro area	51.03
54	Belgium	51.02
55	Cambodia	51.01
56	Finland	50.97
57	Argentina	50.95
58	Burundi	50.95
59	Germany	50.94
60	United Kingdom	50.91
61	Morocco	50.91
62	Czech Republic	50.87
63	High income: OECD	50.87
64	Central African Republic	50.86
65	Thailand	50.84
66	Montenegro	50.81
67	Sri Lanka	50.80
68	Colombia	50.79
69	Eritrea	50.78
70	Mexico	50.77
71	Brazil	50.77
72	Turkmenistan	50.74
73	Angola	50.71
74	South Africa	50.68
75	Albania	50.67
76	Spain	50.66
77	Namibia	50.66
78	Kyrgyzstan	50.65
79	Tajikistan	50.64
80	United States	50.64
81	Mali	50.61
82	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	50.61
83	Haiti	50.60
84	New Zealand	50.59
85	High income	50.58
86	Vietnam	50.57
87	Mongolia	50.56
88	Chile	50.55
89	Serbia	50.52
90	Nicaragua	50.51
91	Togo	50.49
92	South Korea	50.48
93	Mauritius	50.48
94	North Korea	50.48
95	Canada	50.47
96	Sao Tome and Principe	50.47
97	Guinea-Bissau	50.46
98	Democratic Republic of the Congo	50.43
99	Senegal	50.43
100	Greece	50.42
101	Netherlands	50.41
102	Denmark	50.41
103	Gambia	50.40
104	Somalia	50.40
105	Equatorial Guinea	50.39
106	Israel	50.38
107	Luxembourg	50.36
108	Sweden	50.35
109	Nepal	50.34
110	Uzbekistan	50.29
111	Chad	50.29
112	Liberia	50.29
113	Australia	50.28
114	Malawi	50.28
115	Norway	50.26
116	Ethiopia	50.24
117	Madagascar	50.21
118	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	50.18
119	Malta	50.17
120	Low income	50.16
121	Bolivia	50.13
122	Tanzania	50.12
123	Zambia	50.10
124	Least developed countries: UN classification	50.09
125	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	50.08
126	Indonesia	50.08
127	Macedonia	50.07
128	Laos	50.07
129	Republic of the Congo	50.07
130	Burkina Faso	50.03
131	Gabon	50.03
132	Djibouti	50.02
133	Honduras	50.02
134	Kenya	50
135	Cameroon	49.99
136	Botswana	49.98
137	Mayotte	49.95
138	Grenada	49.94
139	Ecuador	49.92
140	Niger	49.91
141	Ireland	49.91
142	Uganda	49.90
143	Suriname	49.89
144	Peru	49.89
145	New Caledonia	49.88
146	Cuba	49.88
147	Nigeria	49.86
148	Comoros	49.82
149	Venezuela	49.81
150	Singapore	49.78
151	Turkey	49.78
152	Dominican Republic	49.78
153	Tunisia	49.72
154	Egypt	49.72
155	Philippines	49.64
156	Sudan	49.64
157	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	49.60
158	Belize	49.60
159	Panama	49.59
160	Paraguay	49.54
161	Maldives	49.53
162	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.52
163	Algeria	49.52
164	Benin	49.51
165	Syria	49.51
166	Guinea	49.49
167	Yemen	49.45
168	Iraq	49.44
169	Bangladesh	49.44
170	Low & middle income	49.42
171	Tonga	49.37
172	Ghana	49.32
173	Mauritania	49.28
174	Fiji	49.26
175	Middle income	49.26
176	Malaysia	49.24
177	Costa Rica	49.23
178	Papua New Guinea	49.19
179	Iran	49.18
180	Guam	49.15
181	Ivory Coast	49.12
182	West Bank and Gaza	49.11
183	Timor-Leste	49.10
184	Vanuatu	49.02
185	Micronesia	49.01
186	French Polynesia	48.93
187	Lower middle income	48.80
188	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	48.78
189	Jordan	48.74
190	Guyana	48.65
191	Iceland	48.58
192	South Asia	48.55
193	Pakistan	48.52
194	Brunei Darussalam	48.43
195	India	48.36
196	Libya	48.35
197	Solomon Islands	48.23
198	Afghanistan	48.21
199	China	48.10
200	Western Samoa	47.89
201	Bhutan	47.30
202	Saudi Arabia	45.31
203	Oman	43.67
204	Bahrain	42.67
205	Kuwait	40.63
206	United Arab Emirates	32.93
207	Qatar	24.58

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