EU population is 105 women to 100 men

There were in total 257 million women and 245 million men in the 27-member European Union in 2011, meaning that there were 105 women per 100 men. These figures were released Wednesday by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, on the occasion of International Women's Day, which falls on 8 March. However, there were around 15 percent more women than men in the total population in Estonia and Latvia (both 117 women per 100 men) and Lithuania (115), while the ratio was almost equal in Cyprus, Sweden, Luxembourg, and Malta (all 101 women per 100 men). The ratio rose to 138 women per 100 men on average in the EU for those aged 65 and over. In 2010, there were 62 million women (24.5 percent of all women) and 54 million men (22.3 percent of all men) in the EU who were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The proportion of women at risk of poverty or social exclusion was higher than for men in all EU Member States, noted Eurostat.