Countries with older male populations tend to import more commercial services per person.
Comparing Population ages 65 and above, male (% of male population) with Commercial service imports (current US$), per capita across 184 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- +0.71
- Holding size constant
- +0.66
- Countries compared
- 184
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
Wealthier nations may both import more commercial services and have older populations due to higher life expectancy. A careful reader should note that correlation does not imply causation, and other factors like healthcare quality or economic structure could drive this link.
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 factors like healthcare spending or economic development patterns.
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.