Globally Declining Population of Women Folk Causing Sex Imbalance Is a Serious Concern: An Analysis of Sex Ratio around the Globe

Table 5

Pearson correlation between sex ratio and its probable determinants among 183 countries all over the world.

	Sex ratio at birth	Sex ratio of <15 yrs of age	Sex ratio of 15–64 yrs of age	Sex ratio of 65+ yrs of age	Sex ratio of total population	Adolescent fertility rate	Crude birth rate	Total fertility rate	Crude death rate	Infant mortality rate	Life expectancy	Gender inequality index	Human development index (HDI)	Rate of natural increase (%)	Net migration rate (per 1000)
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)	(12)	(13)	(14)	(15)
(1)	1	0.847	0.043	−0.010	0.015	−0.433	−0.481	−0.494	−0.230	−0.404	0.471	−0.401	0.420	−0.435	−0.014
(2)		1	0.076	−0.014	0.039	−0.452	−0.544	−0.540	−0.224	−0.470	0.524	−0.486	0.496	−0.504	0.051
(3)			1	0.696	0.981	−0.174	−0.121	−0.104	−0.356	−0.163	0.175	−0.079	0.183	−0.007	0.408
(4)				1	0.770	0.006	0.121	0.083	−0.484	0.007	0.083	0.125	−0.027	0.295	0.321
(5)					1	−0.083	−0.003	−0.003	−0.398	−0.064	0.090	0.040	0.069	0.134	0.379
(6)						1	0.780	0.796	0.446	0.732	−0.737	0.797	−0.755	0.679	−0.154
(7)							1	0.953	0.353	0.828	−0.853	0.834	−0.897	0.947	−0.150
(8)								1	0.414	0.797	−0.821	0.762	−0.834	0.871	−0.091
(9)									1	0.516	−0.637	0.224	−0.425	0.032	−0.087
(10)										1	−0.871	0.784	−0.854	0.706	−0.093
(11)											1	−0.799	0.902	−0.692	0.136
(12)												1	−0.882	0.809	−0.233
(13)													1	−0.812	0.204
(14)														1	−0.131
(15)															1

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).