The Sex Ratio in Portugal in 2021 is 89.84 males per 100 females. There are 4.81 million males and 5.36 million females in Portugal. The percentage of female population is 52.68% compare to 47.32% male population. Portugal has 0.54 million more females than males.
The Portugal Gender Ratio is 95 men to 100 women (95:100) or 0.95. Portugal's gender ratio is lower than the global average of 101 men to 100 women (101:100) or 1.01.
Ethnically, the Portuguese people form 95% of the total population in Portugal. The Portuguese people are mainly a combination of ancient paleolithic populations, and the proto-Celtic, Celtic and Iberian tribes, para-Celtic Lusitanians.
Portugal 2020 population is estimated at 10,196,709 people at mid year according to UN data. Portugal population is equivalent to 0.13% of the total world population.
If this is calculated per inhabitant, taking purchasing power parity into account, then Portugal ranks 43rd in the list of the richest countries. Inflation in Portugal in 2021 was around 1.27%. Within the EU, the average in the same year was 2.55 percent. In the United States, it was most recently 4.70%.
Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil being widely spoken by most of the population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking country in the world, with its lands comprising the majority of Portugal's former colonial holdings in the Americas.
A sex ratio of 100 means there are equal numbers of females and males. Qatar has the highest sex ratio, with three males per woman, followed by the United Arab Emirates, having 222 men per 100 women.
Worldwide, the male population is slightly higher than the female population, although this varies by country. As of 2021, the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, under the control of China, has the highest share of women worldwide with 54.2 percent.
Sex ratios vary widely
The countries with the biggest male-to-female ratios today are Qatar (266 males per 100 females), the United Arab Emirates (228) and Bahrain (164). In several Persian Gulf countries, these wide sex imbalances are primarily due to large immigrant populations of largely male temporary workers.
age of European monarchy
Neighbouring Portugal acquired independence in 1668 after revolt and war protracted by the stubborn determination of Philip IV to maintain his patrimony. This small country had suffered since 1580 from its Spanish connection. Resentment at the loss of part of Brazil and most of…
According to the 2021 census, Muslims represent around 0.4% of the total population of the country. However, many centuries back Islam was a major religion in the territory of modern-day Portugal, beginning with the Muslim conquest of Spain.
Nuclear DNA analysis shows that Spanish and Portuguese populations are most closely related to other populations of western Europe. There is an axis of significant genetic differentiation along the east–west direction, in contrast to remarkable genetic similarity in the north–south direction.
Based on a comparison of 178 countries in 2022, Russia ranked the highest in female population as a percentage of total population with 54.3% followed by Ukraine and Latvia.
Gender Ratio: Global Scenario
In 2021, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Nepal, Hong Kong, and Curacao have the lowest gender ratios globally. In 2021, there were 101 males for every 100 females on average in the world. 3.97 billion men, or 50.42% of the world's population, were male in 2021.
With 62.2 out of 100 points, Portugal ranks 15th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. Its score is 5.8 points below the EU's score. Since 2010, Portugal's score has increased by 8.5 points and its ranking has improved by four places.
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The statistic shows the top 50 metropolitan areas of the United States with the highest share of the female population in 2019. In 2019, Jackson in Missouri ranked first with 52.3 percent of residents being women.
The gender ratio in Russia is currently 86.8 men per 100 women, and the ratios in Latvia (84.8), Ukraine (86.3), Armenia (86.5), Belarus (86.8) and other former Soviet nations are similarly low.
We might expect that naturally an equal number of boys and girls are born, but this is not the case. There are biological reasons why more boys than girls are born each year: around 105 boys per 100 girls. But in countries with a strong son preference, the sex ratio is even more skewed.
Research over hundreds of years has consistently found that boys naturally outnumber girls at birth. The speculation is that this is nature's way of countering the relatively high mortality rates of males, and creating more of a gender balance in the population.
With approximately 230 million native speakers and 25-30 million second language speakers, Portuguese has approximately 260 million total speakers.
Iberian siblings
The Iberian Peninsula is where Portuguese and Spanish were 'born' (if languages can be born) and it is also the main reason why Portuguese and Spanish are much closer to each other than to the other major Romance languages: it has allowed them to develop in relative isolation.
Also a romance language, Portuguese is widely spoken around the world and relatively easy for English-speakers to learn.
Spain is, according to the most recent FMI estimates, the 15th largest world economy (in PPP terms), with Portugal 55th. In terms of per capita GDP (PPP) the gap is smaller, with Spain ranking 32nd and its neighbour 43rd.