These are cultural spheres and i suspect that’s the driver. Both religion and male:female ratios are downstream of culture, so of course religion and gender ratios correlate.
Iran’s 103 is especially telling - a gulf state, as muslim a nation as any of the other overwhelming male gulf states, but with thousands of years of persian cultural heritage seperating them from their predominantly arab neighbours.
These are cultural spheres and i suspect that’s the driver. Both religion and male:female ratios are downstream of culture, so of course religion and gender ratios correlate.
Iran’s 103 is especially telling - a gulf state, as muslim a nation as any of the other overwhelming male gulf states, but with thousands of years of persian cultural heritage seperating them from their predominantly arab neighbours.
Those Gulf states also have a huge amount of immigrant labor, and it’s largely men.