Pillar
Socio-economic overview
Sub-pillar
Demographics
Portal Indicator name
population female
Metrics
Population
Output type
%
Input metric (short definition)
Population, female (% of total population)
Aggregration
Weighted average
Periodicity
Annual
Long definition
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.
Methodology
Population structure by age and sex in the World Bank's estimates is based on the population structure by age and sex in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.
License
CC BY-4.0
Source
World Bank
Regional aggregrational method
Weighted average
Regional aggregrational calculation
sum of all individual (country data point*country population)/sum of all individual country populations)*100
Data Source