Arab Region | Population, percentage of total population, female (Arab countries, 1990–2022)
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
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
726
Source
| Year | Location |
value
Min
Max
|
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Algeria | 49.01 |
| 2009 | Algeria | 49.01 |
| 2016 | Algeria | 49.04 |
| 2020 | Algeria | 49.06 |
| 2006 | Bahrain | 39.08 |
| 2007 | Bahrain | 38.68 |
| 2014 | Bahrain | 38.17 |
| 2015 | Bahrain | 38.21 |
| 2019 | Bahrain | 37.53 |
| 2021 | Bahrain | 37.9 |
| 1991 | Djibouti | 50.34 |
| 1995 | Djibouti | 50.35 |
| 2002 | Egypt | 49.34 |
| 2008 | Egypt | 49.35 |
| 2009 | Egypt | 49.36 |
| 2018 | Egypt | 49.4 |
| 1993 | Iraq | 50.58 |
| 2003 | Iraq | 50.2 |
| 2006 | Jordan | 48.46 |
| 2019 | Jordan | 48.07 |
| 1998 | Lebanon | 50.57 |
| 2004 | Lebanon | 50.45 |
| 2006 | Lebanon | 50.44 |
| 2010 | Lebanon | 50.4 |
| 1995 | Libya | 46.85 |
| 1996 | Libya | 46.92 |
| 1999 | Libya | 47.15 |
| 2007 | Libya | 49.21 |
| 2015 | Libya | 49.2 |
| 2016 | Libya | 49.26 |
| 2020 | Libya | 49.35 |
| 2021 | Libya | 49.38 |
| 1991 | Oman | 42.44 |
| 1994 | Oman | 41.21 |
| 1997 | Oman | 41.99 |
| 2004 | Oman | 43.25 |
| 2006 | Oman | 42.77 |
| 2019 | Oman | 36.46 |
| 1994 | Morocco | 50.09 |
| 1997 | Morocco | 50.06 |
| 2002 | Morocco | 49.95 |
| 2010 | Morocco | 49.8 |
| 2015 | Morocco | 49.7 |
| 2019 | Morocco | 49.64 |
| 1990 | Qatar | 32.49 |
| 1996 | Qatar | 33.38 |
| 2001 | Qatar | 32.71 |
| 2022 | Qatar | 27.49 |
| 1992 | Saudi Arabia | 42.88 |
| 2014 | Saudi Arabia | 42.84 |
| 2022 | Saudi Arabia | 42.38 |
| 1992 | Somalia | 50.2 |
| 1993 | Somalia | 50.2 |
| 2009 | Somalia | 49.9 |
| 2018 | Somalia | 49.87 |
| 1996 | Sudan | 49.42 |
| 2013 | Sudan | 49.97 |
| 2015 | Sudan | 50 |
| 1991 | Syria | 49.29 |
| 1997 | Syria | 49.36 |
| 2006 | Syria | 49.47 |
| 2007 | Syria | 49.5 |
| 2020 | Syria | 49.9 |
| 2022 | Syria | 49.93 |
| 1993 | Tunisia | 49.66 |
| 1995 | Tunisia | 49.68 |
| 2004 | Tunisia | 50.04 |
| 2022 | Tunisia | 50.64 |
| 1995 | United Arab Emirates | 32.55 |
| 2011 | United Arab Emirates | 27.57 |
| 2017 | United Arab Emirates | 29.51 |
| 2020 | United Arab Emirates | 30.28 |
| 1990 | Comoros | 50.06 |
| 1991 | Comoros | 50.1 |
| 1997 | Comoros | 50.21 |
| 2005 | Comoros | 50.24 |
| 2013 | Comoros | 49.91 |
| 2016 | Comoros | 49.88 |
| 2018 | Comoros | 49.83 |
| 2020 | Comoros | 49.77 |
| 1995 | Yemen | 49.71 |
| 1998 | Yemen | 49.63 |
| 2008 | Yemen | 49.43 |
| 2011 | Yemen | 49.39 |
| 2016 | Yemen | 49.37 |
| 1990 | Kuwait | 44.22 |
| 1997 | Kuwait | 41.95 |
| 2008 | Kuwait | 42.34 |
| 2011 | Kuwait | 43.11 |
| 2012 | Kuwait | 42.9 |
| 2015 | Kuwait | 40.16 |
| 2016 | Kuwait | 39.16 |
| 1992 | Mauritania | 50 |
| 2013 | Mauritania | 51.24 |
| 2014 | Mauritania | 51.21 |
| 1990 | Palestine | 49.79 |
| 1991 | Palestine | 49.76 |
| 1996 | Palestine | 49.63 |
| 2005 | Palestine | 49.97 |
| 2008 | Palestine | 50.08 |
Arab Region | Population, percentage of total population, female (Arab countries, 1990–2022)
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
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
726
Source