Service exports decrease with female youth population
Comparing Age population, age 05, female, interpolated with Service exports (BoP, current US$), per unit of GDP across 184 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- -0.66
- Holding size constant
- -0.51
- Countries compared
- 184
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
The negative correlation between service exports per GDP and female youth population might be linked to differences in economic structures or workforce demographics across countries. A careful reader should consider that education levels or cultural factors could also influence this relationship. Urbanization rates could be a likely confounder.
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 relationship between female youth population and service exports, when in fact other underlying factors may be driving the association.
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.