Armenia is among the countries with the largest female populations, The Washington Post reports, citing the new research data.

According to the newspaper, overall, there are slightly more men than women in the world. According to United Nations estimates for 2015, there are 101.8 men for each 100 women, with the number of men rising gradually each year since 1960

But the map by the Pew Research Center based on the latest U.N. data clearly illustrates that men and women are distributed extremely unequally around the globe. In the former Soviet Union countries, for instance, women outnumber men. Conversely, there are more men than women in Asia, Arab countries and Northern Africa.

Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Estonia are among the countries with the largest female populations. Besides, the same countries also lead world statistics in the life-expectancy gap between men and women.

The national differences between male and female populations change with age. In Russia, for instance, the gender ratio is clearly divided by age groups. There new-born boys outnumber girls each year. Men continue to outnumber women until the age of 31. But from the age of 32, there are more females than males, with this gap growing every year.