Fewer women 45-49, less service imports
Comparing Population ages 45-49, female, per unit of GDP with Service imports (BoP, current US$), per capita across 186 countries, 2018–2025.
- Rank correlation
- -0.94
- Holding size constant
- -0.92
- Countries compared
- 186
- Period
- 2018–2025
What might link these
The strong negative correlation might suggest that countries with a larger proportion of women in this age group tend to have lower service imports per capita. A careful reader should consider that education level or workforce participation could be a confounder. The relationship may also be influenced by cultural or societal 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 relationship between the two indicators, when in fact they may both be driven by underlying factors such as economic development or demographic trends.
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.