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. 2024 Apr 17;11:392. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03235-x

Table 1.

Sample Composition (Subsample Size, Gender Distribution, and Age Descriptive Statistics) across 13 World Regions.

World Region (number of countries) N Gender (% of Valid) Gender - Missing data % Age Missing data Age %
Female Male Don’t want to tell Non-binary Self-description M SD
Africa (4) 1,530 55.91 40.93 0.34 0.74 2.08 2.75 22.34 6.04 5.49
Anglo America (2) 1,715 68.24 30.71 0.29 0.53 0.24 0.87 20.10 3.84 1.34
Central Europe (6) 4,681 59.33 39.27 0.72 0.23 0.45 5.34 25.38 8.06 6.81
East Asia (3) 1,247 64.97 32.16 0.74 1.56 0.57 2.25 20.92 4.68 7.86
Eastern Europe (8) 1,610 63.35 33.63 0.96 0.71 1.35 3.23 21.91 6.03 5.59
Latin America (7) 3,193 59.82 38.25 0.62 0.36 0.95 4.29 24.24 8.48 10.96
Middle East (4) 2,366 65.70 32.70 0.48 0.04 1.08 2.41 22.08 4.56 3.38
Northern Europe (4) 1,475 59.26 37.72 1.03 1.03 0.96 1.15 25.67 6.66 2.31
Oceania (2) 886 65.38 33.14 0.45 0.79 0.23 0.56 27.21 10.9 2.71
South Asia (5) 1,933 53.76 43.35 0.60 0.93 1.36 5.12 21.33 4.15 10.35
Southern Europe (10) 6,472 65.62 32.60 0.56 0.34 0.88 3.63 23.47 6.73 5.59
Western Europe (8) 5,361 58.75 39.54 0.49 0.70 0.51 1.87 21.89 6.30 2.50
Total (62) 33,313 61.27 36.75 0.60 0.53 0.85 3.33 23.06 6.86 5.66