Weaker currencies link to more women aged 50-54 per GDP
Comparing US dollar per domestic currency (End-of-period (EoP)) with Population ages 50-54, female, per unit of GDP across 176 countries, 2022–2025.
- Rank correlation
- -0.59
- Holding size constant
- -0.44
- Countries compared
- 176
- Period
- 2022–2025
What might link these
The relationship might be driven by demographic and economic factors, such as countries with weaker currencies having different workforce participation rates or social security systems. A careful reader should consider education levels as a potential confounder. The correlation could be influenced by various underlying factors.
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. This correlation could mislead by implying a direct link between currency value and demographic composition, when in fact other economic and social factors may be driving the relationship.
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.