Young male populations linked to lower service export intensity.
Comparing Population ages 0-14, male with Service exports (BoP, current US$), per unit of GDP across 184 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- -0.66
- Holding size constant
- -0.50
- Countries compared
- 184
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
A younger male population might indicate a less developed or more traditional economy, which could correlate with lower levels of service exports relative to GDP. However, this relationship is weakened when controlling for country population and GDP, suggesting other factors are at play.
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 partial correlation still indicates a link, but the control variables don't fully explain it, and other unmeasured factors could be driving the observed 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.