Spearman rank correlations between each country's ratio and each of its two rates. Restricted to countries whose cause-of-death registration is at least 90% complete, so these are counted deaths.

	rho	p
ratio × male rate	+0.0482	0.688
ratio × female rate	−0.4843	0.000016

variance decomposition

log(ratio) = log(male) − log(female), so the variance of the ratio splits into a male-side and a female-side contribution.

term	value
Var log(male)	0.4678
Var log(female)	0.6418
Var log(ratio)	0.1609
share from the female side	104.1%
share from the male side	−4.1%

the highest ratios, against the world median

Median counted country: male 12.49, female 3.57 per 100 000.

country	ratio	male rate	female rate
Georgia	9.08	8.86	0.98
Jamaica	7.91	3.10	0.39
Saint Lucia	7.68	8.64	1.12
Maldives	7.61	3.18	0.42
Latvia	7.41	22.11	2.98
Brunei Darussalam	7.03	4.61	0.66
Cabo Verde	6.93	30.28	4.37
Belarus	6.70	22.11	3.30