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Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•World map showing whether countries have more males or femalesEnglish

2 years
This is probably on the whole population, so predominantly male immigration is likely the main reason.
The map is not very helpful about what is actually depicted but wikipedia has similar data with a breakdown by age :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_sex_ratio
Qatar for instance is not very high (this is a ratio of number of male over number of female) on the “at birth” and “0-14” age bracket with 1.02. it’s actually a bit lower than western countries.
The data is still concerning in some countries with notably larger “at birth” ratio and even an increase in th “0-14” age bracket.
Launching from Norway over the ocean means launching due north or slightly west (the spaceport website says 90 to 110° inclination). West is the “wrong” way for fuel efficiency (probably not so important at these high inclination). These polar orbit are more useful for low earth orbit (earth observation mainly), a satellite can change its inclination but that’s more fuel and less useful payload mass. With inclination change, the site could be used to launch constellations.
Big communication satellite need to launch at lower inclination (closer to the equator and due east).
So it makes sense only for some use case, but it’s great to see redundancies. And if it works well, maybe some day they could get a pas in french Guyana.