Higher male-population-per-GDP linked to lower public administration scores
Comparing Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration Score with Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male, per unit of GDP across 150 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- -0.63
- Holding size constant
- -0.49
- Countries compared
- 150
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
Countries with more men relative to economic output may face governance challenges tied to gender imbalances or labor market pressures. A careful reader should note that correlation does not imply causation, and other factors like institutional quality or historical development could drive both indicators.
Why this is not proof of anything
This is a correlation across countries, not an experiment. It cannot show that either indicator causes the other, and both may simply follow a third thing. The relationship could be driven by unmeasured confounders like cultural norms or data quality issues in governance metrics.
The second figure above repeats the measurement with national population and income held constant. It is the more conservative number: a relationship that largely disappears there was mostly telling you that larger, richer countries have more of most things.
How this was measured
Both indicators were ranked across every country reporting each, and the two rankings compared — ranks rather than raw values, because a handful of very large countries can otherwise manufacture a relationship on their own. The calculation is arithmetic over figures already published on this site; the commentary above is drafted from the two indicator names and the resulting coefficients.