Your city vs. theirs

Men per 100 women, ages 20–39, same census method on both sides. US median 101.4, abroad 98.6.

Dot plot comparing the male-to-female ratio of 19 US cities against 123 cities abroad, with medians marked

Each dot is a city, area proportional to population, coloured on the site's 94/100/112 ratio scale.

What the chart says

The gap is real but small: 2.8 points. US median 101.4, abroad 98.6. That is the honest size of the effect at the median, against a pitch that usually implies a chasm.
The spread inside each group dwarfs the gap between them. Both sets run from the high 80s to the low 110s, so which city you pick matters far more than which country.

All 201

Every city on the chart, US first, then abroad, each sorted by ratio.

#	City	Country	Set	Men per 100 women	vs US median	Cost / mo
1	New Orleans	United States of America	US	85.7	-15.7	$2,455
2	New York City	United States of America	US	93.1	-8.3	$4,213
3	Nashville	United States of America	US	94.2	-7.2	$2,409
4	Boston	United States of America	US	95.7	-5.7	$3,935
5	Atlanta	United States of America	US	97.5	-3.9	$2,713
6	Chicago	United States of America	US	99.0	-2.4	$2,701
7	Tampa	United States of America	US	99.1	-2.3	$2,674
8	Portland	United States of America	US	99.1	-2.3	$2,887
9	Dallas	United States of America	US	101.0	-0.4	$2,526
10	Omaha	United States of America	US	101.4	+0.0	$2,164
11	Los Angeles	United States of America	US	102.6	+1.2	$3,629
12	Minneapolis	United States of America	US	102.9	+1.5	$2,319
13	Miami	United States of America	US	103.8	+2.4	$3,413
14	Denver	United States of America	US	104.2	+2.8	$2,713
15	Phoenix	United States of America	US	104.4	+3.0	$2,526
16	San Francisco	United States of America	US	108.3	+6.9	$4,016
17	Seattle	United States of America	US	109.1	+7.7	$3,250
18	Austin	United States of America	US	109.2	+7.8	$2,302
19	San Diego	United States of America	US	111.1	+9.7	$3,878
20	Fukuoka	Japan	abroad	75.2	-26.2	$883
21	Phuket	Thailand	abroad	79.1	-22.3	$856
22	Osaka	Japan	abroad	85.1	-16.3	$995
23	Sapporo	Japan	abroad	85.9	-15.5	$968
24	Salvador	Brazil	abroad	86.0	-15.4	$708
25	Santo Domingo	Ecuador	abroad	86.4	-15.0	$857
26	Cali	Colombia	abroad	87.3	-14.1	$708
27	Cusco	Peru	abroad	87.6	-13.8	$456
28	Kisumu	Kenya	abroad	89.2	-12.2	$455
29	Loja	Ecuador	abroad	89.5	-11.9	$423
30	Hua Hin	Thailand	abroad	89.8	-11.6	$671
31	Warsaw	Poland	abroad	90.0	-11.4	$1,749
32	Riobamba	Ecuador	abroad	90.5	-10.9	$311
33	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	abroad	90.6	-10.8	$858
34	Cluj-Napoca	Romania	abroad	90.8	-10.6	$1,193
35	Fortaleza	Brazil	abroad	91.3	-10.1	$629
36	Recife	Brazil	abroad	91.8	-9.6	$659
37	Meknes	Morocco	abroad	91.8	-9.6	$408
38	Yangon	Myanmar	abroad	92.0	-9.4	$454
39	Manta	Ecuador	abroad	92.4	-9.0	$534
40	Rabat	Morocco	abroad	92.7	-8.7	$599
41	Cuenca	Ecuador	abroad	92.8	-8.6	$671
42	Sibiu	Romania	abroad	93.2	-8.2	$886
43	Arequipa	Peru	abroad	93.2	-8.2	$490
44	Boca Chica	Dominican Republic	abroad	93.2	-8.2	$951
45	Portoviejo	Ecuador	abroad	93.2	-8.2	$660
46	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	abroad	93.3	-8.1	$942
47	Marrakech	Morocco	abroad	93.3	-8.1	$616
48	Pereira	Colombia	abroad	93.4	-8.0	$859
49	Phnom Penh	Cambodia	abroad	93.6	-7.8	$742
50	Fez	Morocco	abroad	93.6	-7.8	$425
51	Machala	Ecuador	abroad	93.6	-7.8	$388
52	Kraków	Poland	abroad	93.8	-7.6	$1,542
53	Gdańsk	Poland	abroad	94.0	-7.4	$1,540
54	Nairobi	Kenya	abroad	94.1	-7.3	$578
55	Victoria	Canada	abroad	94.1	-7.3	$2,209
56	Hanoi	Vietnam	abroad	94.3	-7.1	$528
57	Nakuru	Kenya	abroad	94.3	-7.1	$432
58	Oradea	Romania	abroad	94.3	-7.1	$794
59	Brasov	Romania	abroad	94.4	-7.0	$1,096
60	Quito	Ecuador	abroad	94.6	-6.8	$640
61	Duesseldorf	Germany	abroad	94.6	-6.8	$1,944
62	Poznań	Poland	abroad	94.7	-6.7	$1,321
63	Rosario	Argentina	abroad	94.7	-6.7	$664
64	Bucharest	Romania	abroad	94.8	-6.6	$1,108
65	Novi Sad	Serbia	abroad	94.8	-6.6	$1,100
66	Lima	Peru	abroad	94.9	-6.5	$705
67	Wrocław	Poland	abroad	95.1	-6.3	$1,455
68	Cologne	Germany	abroad	95.1	-6.3	$1,889
69	Minsk	Belarus	abroad	95.1	-6.3	$814
70	Coimbra	Portugal	abroad	95.1	-6.3	$1,263
71	Córdoba	Argentina	abroad	95.2	-6.2	$1,001
72	Timisoara	Romania	abroad	95.2	-6.2	$918
73	Constanta	Romania	abroad	95.2	-6.2	$1,099
74	Temuco	Chile	abroad	95.4	-6.0	$827
75	Guayaquil	Ecuador	abroad	95.6	-5.8	$800
76	São Paulo	Brazil	abroad	95.7	-5.7	$891
77	San Miguel de Tucumán	Argentina	abroad	96.0	-5.4	$710
78	Agadir	Morocco	abroad	96.0	-5.4	$484
79	Mombasa	Kenya	abroad	96.2	-5.2	$435
80	Mar del Plata	Argentina	abroad	96.2	-5.2	$900
81	Santiago de los Caballeros	Dominican Republic	abroad	96.5	-4.9	$723
82	Buenos Aires	Argentina	abroad	96.7	-4.7	$1,325
83	Salta	Argentina	abroad	96.7	-4.7	$823
84	Cartagena	Colombia	abroad	96.8	-4.6	$1,110
85	La Plata	Argentina	abroad	96.9	-4.5	$760
86	Casablanca	Morocco	abroad	96.9	-4.5	$702
87	Angeles City	Philippines	abroad	97.4	-4.0	$578
88	Łódź	Poland	abroad	97.4	-4.0	$1,230
89	Braga	Portugal	abroad	97.6	-3.8	$1,319
90	Cascais	Portugal	abroad	97.7	-3.7	$1,844
91	Florianópolis	Brazil	abroad	97.8	-3.6	$931
92	Jakarta	Indonesia	abroad	97.8	-3.6	$464
93	Asunción	Paraguay	abroad	97.8	-3.6	$741
94	Bariloche	Argentina	abroad	98.0	-3.4	$1,294
95	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	abroad	98.0	-3.4	$2,207
96	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	abroad	98.2	-3.2	$1,550
97	Barranquilla	Colombia	abroad	98.2	-3.2	$852
98	Brest	Belarus	abroad	98.2	-3.2	$1,099
99	Santa Marta	Colombia	abroad	98.3	-3.1	$928
100	Vancouver	Canada	abroad	98.4	-3.0	$2,446
101	Gomel	Belarus	abroad	98.4	-3.0	$520
102	Porto	Portugal	abroad	98.4	-3.0	$1,640
103	Merida	Mexico	abroad	98.6	-2.8	$1,450
104	Montevideo	Uruguay	abroad	98.6	-2.8	$1,436
105	Bogota	Colombia	abroad	98.7	-2.7	$1,650
106	Yogyakarta	Indonesia	abroad	98.8	-2.6	$366
107	Faro	Portugal	abroad	98.8	-2.6	$1,535
108	Ottawa	Canada	abroad	98.9	-2.5	$2,102
109	Iasi	Romania	abroad	99.0	-2.4	$1,004
110	Olomouc	Czechia	abroad	99.0	-2.4	$1,253
111	Funchal	Portugal	abroad	99.0	-2.4	$1,923
112	Siem Reap	Cambodia	abroad	99.1	-2.3	$525
113	Toronto	Canada	abroad	99.1	-2.3	$2,327
114	Kragujevac	Serbia	abroad	99.1	-2.3	$888
115	Calgary	Canada	abroad	99.3	-2.1	$2,006
116	Essaouira	Morocco	abroad	99.4	-2.0	$553
117	Battambang	Cambodia	abroad	99.6	-1.8	$460
118	Surabaya	Indonesia	abroad	99.8	-1.6	$383
119	Halifax	Canada	abroad	99.9	-1.5	$2,158
120	Hamburg	Germany	abroad	99.9	-1.5	$1,973
121	Gaziantep	Turkey	abroad	100.0	-1.4	$487
122	Ankara	Turkey	abroad	100.1	-1.3	$970
123	Baguio City	Philippines	abroad	100.3	-1.1	$558
124	Medellin	Colombia	abroad	100.3	-1.1	$1,500
125	La Serena	Chile	abroad	100.3	-1.1	$796
126	Prague	Czechia	abroad	100.3	-1.1	$1,767
127	Bucaramanga	Colombia	abroad	100.4	-1.0	$783
128	Viña del Mar	Chile	abroad	100.4	-1.0	$850
129	Munich	Germany	abroad	100.5	-0.9	$2,442
130	Edmonton	Canada	abroad	101.0	-0.4	$1,882
131	Iquique	Chile	abroad	101.0	-0.4	$860
132	Niš	Serbia	abroad	101.0	-0.4	$745
133	Montreal	Canada	abroad	101.1	-0.3	$1,756
134	Hradec Kralove	Czechia	abroad	101.1	-0.3	$1,219
135	Liberec	Czechia	abroad	101.2	-0.2	$1,202
136	Istanbul	Turkey	abroad	101.3	-0.1	$1,142
137	Hai Phong	Vietnam	abroad	101.4	+0.0	$438
138	Ceske Budejovice	Czechia	abroad	101.4	+0.0	$1,359
139	Antofagasta	Chile	abroad	101.8	+0.4	$731
140	Berlin	Germany	abroad	101.8	+0.4	$2,190
141	Da Nang	Vietnam	abroad	101.9	+0.5	$1,200
142	Budapest	Hungary	abroad	101.9	+0.5	$1,345
143	Cebu City	Philippines	abroad	102.0	+0.6	$682
144	Leipzig	Germany	abroad	102.0	+0.6	$1,579
145	Bursa	Turkey	abroad	102.1	+0.7	$714
146	Mogilev	Belarus	abroad	102.5	+1.1	$565
147	Pecs	Hungary	abroad	102.6	+1.2	$1,086
148	Grodno	Belarus	abroad	102.6	+1.2	$623
149	Adana	Turkey	abroad	102.7	+1.3	$592
150	Iloilo City	Philippines	abroad	102.8	+1.4	$495
151	Mendoza	Argentina	abroad	102.8	+1.4	$907
152	Metro Manila	Philippines	abroad	102.9	+1.5	$689
153	Antalya	Turkey	abroad	103.0	+1.6	$878
154	Quebec City	Canada	abroad	103.1	+1.7	$1,518
155	Plzen	Czechia	abroad	103.1	+1.7	$1,384
156	Pardubice	Czechia	abroad	103.3	+1.9	$1,234
157	Barysaw	Belarus	abroad	103.3	+1.9	$1,732
158	Puerto Plata	Dominican Republic	abroad	103.4	+2.0	$707
159	Winnipeg	Canada	abroad	103.4	+2.0	$1,771
160	Izmir	Turkey	abroad	103.6	+2.2	$883
161	Concepción	Chile	abroad	103.8	+2.4	$837
162	Suwon	South Korea	abroad	103.9	+2.5	$885
163	Manado	Indonesia	abroad	104.1	+2.7	$290
164	Subotica	Serbia	abroad	104.1	+2.7	$854
165	Stuttgart	Germany	abroad	104.2	+2.8	$1,906
166	Valparaíso	Chile	abroad	104.4	+3.0	$915
167	Mexico City	Mexico	abroad	104.5	+3.1	$2,100
168	Tangier	Morocco	abroad	104.5	+3.1	$690
169	Denpasar	Indonesia	abroad	104.7	+3.3	$371
170	Colonia del Sacramento	Uruguay	abroad	104.8	+3.4	$1,326
171	Heredia	Costa Rica	abroad	104.8	+3.4	$1,370
172	Can Tho	Vietnam	abroad	104.9	+3.5	$307
173	Brno	Czechia	abroad	104.9	+3.5	$1,530
174	Davao City	Philippines	abroad	105.2	+3.8	$550
175	Kota Kinabalu	Malaysia	abroad	105.3	+3.9	$523
176	Chiang Rai	Thailand	abroad	105.4	+4.0	$393
177	Szeged	Hungary	abroad	105.5	+4.1	$925
178	Guadalajara	Mexico	abroad	105.6	+4.2	$1,065
179	Nha Trang	Vietnam	abroad	105.9	+4.5	$511
180	Usti nad Labem	Czechia	abroad	105.9	+4.5	$1,102
181	Ostrava	Czechia	abroad	106.0	+4.6	$1,194
182	Gyor	Hungary	abroad	106.2	+4.8	$1,028
183	Tokyo	Japan	abroad	106.3	+4.9	$1,306
184	Puerto Vallarta	Mexico	abroad	106.6	+5.2	$1,395
185	George Town	Malaysia	abroad	106.8	+5.4	$614
186	Punta del Este	Uruguay	abroad	107.6	+6.2	$1,534
187	Nuremberg	Germany	abroad	107.6	+6.2	$1,653
188	Liberia	Costa Rica	abroad	107.7	+6.3	$886
189	Bandung	Indonesia	abroad	107.8	+6.4	$356
190	San Jose	Costa Rica	abroad	108.5	+7.1	$1,476
191	Monterrey	Mexico	abroad	108.6	+7.2	$1,334
192	Miskolc	Hungary	abroad	109.9	+8.5	$936
193	Da Lat	Vietnam	abroad	110.0	+8.6	$495
194	Debrecen	Hungary	abroad	110.4	+9.0	$1,128
195	Dresden	Germany	abroad	111.3	+9.9	$1,541
196	Playa del Carmen	Mexico	abroad	112.2	+10.8	$948
197	Santiago	Chile	abroad	114.4	+13.0	$974
198	Sihanoukville	Cambodia	abroad	114.5	+13.1	$632
199	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	abroad	120.6	+19.2	$698
200	Ipoh	Malaysia	abroad	124.4	+23.0	$517
201	Johor Bahru	Malaysia	abroad	125.6	+24.2	$678

"vs US median" is that city's ratio minus 101.4, the median of the 19 US cities carried. Only cities with a cost figure are included, so this is the same set as the cost chart.

Where this is wrong

19 US cities is a thin sample of a big country. It is the cities the site carries, not a representative panel of American metros.
Both sides are 20–39 city figures, so this compares like with like — but a US metro and a foreign metro can mean different geographic footprints.
23 cities are held back, not missing. Every UK city, and most of Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea, ship census arrays that are not population counts — a few hundred people against multi-million cities, and Belfast computing to 158 men per 100 women off 173 people. They are excluded until the source is rebuilt.
Population is the linked administrative unit, not always the metro. New York City's census arrays cover a borough, Mexico City's a delegación, Japan's four cities a ward. Those ratios are real ratios of real places, but read them as that unit rather than as the whole metro.

Sources

Age by sex: national statistics offices, per market, at the finest published level — see methodology for the per-country source table. Built with Python and matplotlib; the renderer is geomax/viz/chart_suite.py.

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