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 to 40 or more in several Europe

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an countries, Canada

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 and Japan

Demographics of Japan

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. The median age for females tends to be much greater than men in some of the ex-Soviet

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 republics

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, while the opposite occurs in most countries in the Arabian Peninsula

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Country	Total	Male	Female	Year
Monaco	48.9	48.0	49.9	2010 est.
Japan	44.6	42.9	46.5	2010 est.
Italy	44.3	43.0	45.6	2010 est.
Germany	43.7	42.3	45.3	2010 est.
Jersey	43.4	42.5	44.2	2010 est.
Hong Kong	42.8	42.4	43.2	2010 est.
Guernsey	42.7	41.8	43.5	2010 est.
Austria	42.6	41.5	43.6	2010 est.
Finland	42.3	40.7	44.0	2010 est.
Greece	42.2	41.1	43.2	2010 est.
San Marino	42.1	41.3	42.8	2010 est.
Slovenia	42.1	40.4	43.7	2010 est.
Belgium	42.0	40.7	43.3	2010 est.
Sweden	41.7	40.6	42.9	2010 est.
Bermuda	41.6	40.2	43.1	2010 est.
Kingdom of Bulgaria	41.6	39.4	43.9	2010 est.
Spain	41.5	40.1	42.9	2010 est.
Liechtenstein	41.4	40.8	41.9	2010 est.
Switzerland	41.3	40.3	42.4	2010 est.
Independent State of Croatia	41.2	39.3	43.0	2010 est.
Serbia	41.1	39.4	42.9	2010 est.
Netherlands	40.8	40.0	41.6	2010 est.
Denmark	40.7	39.8	41.6	2010 est.
Canada	40.7	39.6	41.8	2010 est.
United Kingdom	40.5	39.4	41.5	2010 est.
Isle of Man	40.4	39.3	41.6	2010 est.
Czech Republic	40.4	38.9	42.2	2010 est.
Latvia	40.4	37.4	43.5	2010 est.
Bosnia and Herzegovina	40.3	39.1	41.5	2010 est.
Estonia	40.2	36.7	43.7	2010 est.
Hungary	40.2	38.1	42.8	2011 est.
Andorra	39.9	40.2	39.6	2010 est.
Saint Barthélemy	39.8	39.9	39.6	2010 est.
'	39.8	39.2	40.2	2010 est.
Norway	39.7	38.8	40.5	2010 est.
Malta	39.7	38.5	41.1	2010 est.
Early Modern France	39.7	38.2	41.2	2010 est.
Portugal	39.7	37.6	41.9	2010 est.
Lithuania	39.7	37.1	42.3	2010 est.
Ukraine	39.7	36.5	42.9	2010 est.
Singapore	39.6	39.1	40.0	2010 est.
Luxembourg	39.3	38.3	40.3	2010 est.
Belarus	38.8	35.8	41.8	2010 est.
Georgia (country)	38.8	36.3	41.3	2010 est.
Russia	38.5	35.3	41.7	2010 est.
Cayman Islands	38.4	38.0	38.9	2010 est.
Saint Helena	38.2	38.2	38.1	2010 est.
Poland	38.2	36.5	40.0	2010 est.
Kingdom of Romania	38.1	36.7	39.6	2010 est.
Aruba	38.0	36.2	39.7	2010 est.
South Korea	37.9	36.5	39.1	2010 est.
Cuba	37.8	37.1	38.6	2010 est.
Australia	37.5	36.8	38.3	2010 est.
Slovakia	37.3	35.7	38.9	2010 est.
Kingdom of Montenegro	37.2	35.9	38.8	2010 est.
Faroe Islands	37.1	36.5	37.9	2010 est.
Republic of China	37.0	36.4	37.7	2010 est.
New Zealand	36.8	36.0	37.6	2010 est.
United States	36.8	35.5	38.1	2010 est.
Puerto Rico	36.7	34.9	38.4	2010 est.
Barbados	36.2	35.1	37.2	2010 est.
Macau	35.6	36.3	35.0	2010 est.
Republic of Ireland	35.4	34.9	35.8	2010 est.
Iceland	35.4	34.9	35.8	2010 est.
Republic of Macedonia	35.4	34.4	36.4	2010 est.
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	35.2	34.6	35.7	2010 est.
Mainland China	35.2	34.5	35.8	2010 est.
Moldova	35.0	33.1	37.1	2010 est.
Cyprus	34.5	33.2	36.3	2010 est.
Netherlands Antilles	34.1	32.1	35.8	2010 est.
North Korea	33.9	32.5	35.2	2010 est.
Thailand	33.7	32.9	34.7	2010 est.
Uruguay	33.7	32.3	35.1	2010 est.
Greenland	33.5	34.9	31.9	2010 est.
Gibraltar	33.1	32.2	34.1	2010 est.
Anguilla	33.0	31.6	34.3	2010 est.
British Virgin Islands	32.6	32.7	32.5	2010 est.
Trinidad and Tobago	32.6	32.1	33.1	2010 est.
Palau	32.4	32.2	33.0	2010 est.
Mauritius	32.3	31.4	33.2	2010 est.
Seychelles	32.0	31.5	32.5	2010 est.
Armenia	31.9	29.1	34.7	2010 est.
Chile	31.7	30.7	32.8	2010 est.
Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.5	31.5	31.5	2010 est.
Sri Lanka	31.3	30.3	32.2	2010 est.
Cook Islands	31.2	30.5	31.9	2010 est.
Qatar	30.8	32.9	25.4	2010 est.
Saint Martin (France)	30.8	29.7	31.6	2010 est.
Bahrain	30.4	33.5	27.1	2010 est.
Saint Lucia	30.3	29.3	31.4	2010 est.
Dominica	30.3	29.8	30.8	2010 est.
Argentina	30.3	29.2	31.3	2010 est.
United Arab Emirates	30.2	32.1	24.8	2010 est.
Albania	30.2	29.6	31.0	2010 est.
Antigua and Barbuda	30.0	28.5	31.4	2010 est.
	29.9	28.8	31.0	2010 est.
Kazakhstan	29.9	28.4	31.6	2010 est.
Tunisia	29.7	29.1	30.3	2010 est.
French Polynesia	29.5	29.8	29.2	2010 est.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	29.5	29.6	29.4	2010 est.
Lebanon	29.4	28.3	30.5	2010 est.
Northern Mariana Islands	29.3	29.9	29.1	2010 est.
Guam	29.3	28.9	29.7	2010 est.
Israel	29.3	28.6	30.0	2010 est.
Montserrat	29.1	28.8	29.5	2010 est.
New Caledonia	29.0	28.5	29.5	2010 est.
Brazil	28.9	28.1	29.7	2010 est.
Turks and Caicos Islands	28.0	28.8	27.3	2010 est.
Azerbaijan	28.5	26.9	30.3	2010 est.
Costa Rica	28.4	27.9	28.9	2010 est.
World	28.4	27.7	29	2010 est.
Suriname	28.3	27.9	28.7	2010 est.
Grenada	28.2	28.2	28.2	2010 est.
Brunei	28.1	28.0	28.2	2010 est.
Turkey	28.1	27.7	28.4	2010 est.
Indonesia	27.9	27.4	28.4	2010 est.
Wallis and Futuna	27.9	26.8	29.2	2010 est.
Iran	27.6	27.4	27.4	2010 est.
Colombia	27.6	26.7	28.8	2010 est.
Vietnam	27.4	26.4	28.5	2010 est.
Panama	27.2	26.9	27.6	2010 est.
Algeria	27.1	26.8	27.3	2010 est.
Mexico	26.7	25.6	27.7	2010 est.
Myanmar	26.5	26.0	27.1	2010 est.
Morocco	26.5	25.9	27.0	2010 est.
Kuwait	26.4	28.2	22.9	2010 est.
Peru	26.4	26.1	26.7	2010 est.
Republic of Kosovo	26.3	25.8	26.8	2010 est.
Maldives	25.9	26.6	24.7	2010 est.
India	25.9	25.4	26.6	2010 est.
Fiji	25.8	25.3	26.4	2010 est.
Mongolia	25.8	25.3	26.2	2010 est.
Venezuela	25.8	25.1	26.5	2010 est.
Ecuador	25.3	24.7	25.9	2010 est.
Dominican Republic	25.2	25.0	25.3	2010 est.
Uzbekistan	25.2	24.7	25.8	2010 est.
Malaysia	25.1	24.5	25.8	2010 est.
Paraguay	24.9	24.7	25.1	2010 est.
Turkmenistan	24.8	24.4	25.3	2010 est.
South Africa	24.7	24.4	25.0	2010 est.
Kyrgyzstan	24.7	23.8	25.6	2010 est.
Vanuatu	24.6	24.5	24.6	2010 est.
Bhutan	24.3	25.0	23.7	2010 est.
Libya	24.2	24.3	24.2	2010 est.
Egypt	24.0	23.8	24.3	2010 est.
Oman	23.9	25.4	22.1	2010 est.
Jamaica	23.9	23.4	24.5	2010 est.
El Salvador	23.9	22.5	25.3	2010 est.
Tuvalu	23.9	22.4	26.0	2010 est.
Guyana	23.6	22.9	24.3	2010 est.
Bangladesh	23.5	23.2	23.8	2010 est.
American Samoa	23.4	23.3	23.6	2010 est.
Tonga	22.7	22.3	23.2	2010 est.
Philippines	22.7	22.2	23.2	2010 est.
Lesotho	22.6	22.6	22.7	2010 est.
Nicaragua	22.5	22.1	22.9	2010 est.
Cambodia	22.5	21.8	23.2	2010 est.
	22.4	21.8	22.9	2010 est.
Cape Verde	22.3	21.4	23.1	2010 est.
East Timor	22.2	22.2	22.2	2010 est.
Tajikistan	22.2	21.7	22.7	2010 est.
Bolivia	22.2	21.5	22.9	2010 est.
Botswana	22.0	21.8	22.1	2010 est.
Kiribati	22.2	21.4	23.0	2010 est.
Nauru	22.0	21.4	22.6	2010 est.
Samoa	21.8	21.7	21.9	2010 est.
Jordan	21.8	21.6	22.1	2010 est.
Saudi Arabia	21.6	22.9	20.0	2010 est.
Papua New Guinea	21.6	21.9	21.3	2010 est.
Marshall Islands	21.5	21.5	21.5	2010 est.
Syria	21.5	21.3	21.7	2010 est.
Namibia	21.4	21.3	21.4	2010 est.
Djibouti	21.4	19.8	22.8	2010 est.
Pakistan	21.2	21.3	21.2	2010 est.
Nepal	21.2	20.2	22.1	2010 est.
Ghana	21.1	20.8	21.3	2010 est.
West Bank	20.9	20.7	21.1	2010 est.
Belize	20.7	20.5	20.9	2010 est.
Honduras	20.7	20.3	21.1	2010 est.
Iraq	20.6	20.5	20.8	2010 est.
Haiti	20.5	20.0	20.9	2010 est.
Western Sahara	20.1	19.7	20.6	2010 est.
Swaziland	20.1	19.7	20.5	2010 est.
Solomon Islands	20.0	19.8	20.2	2010 est.
Guatemala	19.7	19.1	20.4	2010 est.
Laos	19.5	19.2	19.8	2010 est.
Côte d'Ivoire	19.4	19.6	19.3	2010 est.
Guinea-Bissau	19.4	18.8	19.9	2010 est.
Cameroon	19.3	19.2	19.4	2010 est.
Sudan	19.3	19.1	19.5	2010 est.
Mauritania	19.3	18.5	20.2	2010 est.
Central African Republic	19.1	18.7	19.5	2010 est.
Nigeria	19.1	19.0	19.2	2010 est.
Sierra Leone	19.0	18.6	19.5	2010 est.
Equatorial Guinea	19.0	18.4	19.6	2010 est.
Comoros	18.9	18.6	19.2	2010 est.
Togo	18.9	18.5	19.4	2010 est.
Senegal	18.7	18.5	18.9	2010 est.
Gabon	18.6	18.4	18.9	2010 est.
Rwanda	18.6	18.4	18.9	2010 est.
Guinea	18.5	18.3	18.8	2010 est.
Eritrea	18.5	18.2	18.9	2010 est.
Liberia	18.4	18.3	18.4	2010 est.
Tanzania	18.3	18.0	18.5	2010 est.
Madagascar	18.1	17.8	18.3	2010 est.
Angola	18.0	18.0	18.0	2010 est.
	18.0	17.9	18.2	2010 est.
Afghanistan	18.0	17.9	18.1	2010 est.
Zimbabwe	17.8	16.7	18.9	2010 est.
Somalia	17.6	17.4	17.7	2010 est.
Gaza Strip	17.5	17.4	17.7	2010 est.
Mozambique	17.5	17.1	17.9	2010 est.
São Tomé and Príncipe	17.5	17.0	17.9	2010 est.
Benin	17.3	16.9	17.8	2010 est.
Mayotte	17.3	18.1	16.5	2010 est.
Zambia	17.2	17.1	17.3	2010 est.
Malawi	17.1	17.0	17.3	2010 est.
Ethiopia	16.8	16.5	17.2	2010 est.
Burkina Faso	16.8	16.6	17.0	2010 est.
Republic of the Congo	16.9	16.7	17.2	2010 est.
Burundi	16.8	16.6	17.0	2010 est.
Chad	16.6	15.5	17.8	2010 est.
Democratic Republic of the Congo	16.5	16.3	16.7	2010 est.
Yemen	16.4	16.8	16.0	2010 est.
Mali	16.2	15.8	16.6	2010 est.
Niger	15.2	15.0	15.4	2010 est.
Uganda	15.0	14.9	15.1	2010 est.