Young males linked to tetanus cases
Comparing Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) with Neonatal tetanus - number of reported cases, gaps filled across 198 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- +0.57
- Holding size constant
- +0.46
- Countries compared
- 198
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
The correlation might be driven by healthcare access or vaccination rates, which could affect both the proportion of young males and the incidence of neonatal tetanus. A careful reader should consider education levels as a likely confounder. The relationship could be influenced by various socioeconomic 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 demographics and disease incidence, when in fact the relationship may be mediated by other factors such as healthcare infrastructure.
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.