User:Ijon/Content gap

I was curious about the content gap in articles about men vs. articles about women, so I pulled up some data through Wikidata.

Big caveat: only entities that -- 1. have Wikidata items; 2. are known to Wikidata as humans; 3. have either 'male' or 'female' as their gender -- are counted here. This undoubtedly leaves out quite a few people (especially people with no interwikis, where a Wikidata item may never have been created), so read the numbers as at least X, but the proportion should be statistically valid. (I guesstimate the margin of error introduced by these shortcomings to be generally under 10%, and lower on the larger wikis.)

Data as of June 15th 2016

Language	# of articles about men	# of articles about women	% of articles about women out of all humans
ne	1372	1306	~48.8%
ur	5026	2689	~34.9%
ko	44062	13321	~23.2%
te	2720	793	~22.6%
ja	181416	50902	~21.9%
pa	3186	874	~21.5%
no	102911	27090	~20.8%
or	759	197	~20.6%
sv	149318	37349	~20.0%
ml	6643	1653	~19.9%
vi	17640	3854	~17.9%
ms	9470	2023	~17.6%
sr	25446	5488	~17.7%
fi	103570	22017	~17.5%
es	234635	49551	~17.4%
zh	99140	20832	~17.3%
hi	8534	1756	~17.1%
et	30567	6297	~17.1%
id	35432	7283	~17.0%
he	47988	9727	~16.8%
kn	1975	397	~16.7%
pt	151340	30058	~16.5%
en	1147981	224258	~16.3%
nl	154224	29931	~16.2%
bg	46162	8682	~15.8%
fr	398382	74074	~15.6%
tr	51804	9539	~15.6%
pl	243590	44358	~15.4%
bn	7880	1420	~15.2%
ar	76379	13617	~15.1%
de	520916	93043	~15.1%
it	259088	44159	~14.6%
lv	13719	2243	~14.1%
mr	8784	1413	~13.9%
gu	1059	171	~13.9%
ru	278018	44477	~13.8%
hy	20644	3271	~13.6%
uk	97021	15076	~13.4%
hu	69788	10658	~13.2%
ca	97236	14511	~13.0%
ta	13668	1997	~12.7%

Data as of February 2020

Language	# of articles about men	# of articles about women	% of women out of total	Change in points since June 2016
Estonian	38316	9252	19.45%	2.35
Nepali	2618	1818	40.98%	-7.82
Hebrew	63286	15581	19.76%	2.96
Urdu	9906	3762	27.52%	-7.38
Korean	72484	23476	24.46%	1.26
Telugu	4204	1463	25.82%	3.22
Japanese	242323	68042	21.92%	0.02
Punjabi	5604	3509	38.51%	17.01
Norwegian	125785	38715	23.53%	2.73
Odia	1780	944	34.65%	14.05
Swedish	180137	48563	21.23%	1.23
Malayalam	9901	4506	31.28%	11.38
Vietnamese	42694	14597	25.48%	7.58
Serbian	35410	8303	18.99%	1.29
Malaysian	21495	4302	16.68%	-0.92
Finnish	120535	29537	19.68%	2.18
Spanish	306173	80719	20.86%	3.46
Chinese	138903	32283	18.86%	1.56
Hindi	14120	4133	22.64%	5.54
Indonesian	60219	13785	18.63%	1.63
Kannada	2955	924	23.82%	7.12
Portuguese	185018	41030	18.15%	1.65
Dutch	180179	38152	17.47%	1.27
Bulgarian	61227	12263	16.69%	0.89
French	481537	106250	18.08%	2.48
Turkish	68678	15812	18.71%	3.11
Polish	293359	56357	16.12%	0.72
Arabic	378628	70299	15.66%	0.56
Bangla	17660	4847	21.54%	6.34
German	628444	119123	15.93%	0.83
Italian	329316	61352	15.70%	1.10
Marathi	10410	2220	17.58%	3.68
Gujarati	1470	289	16.43%	2.53
Armenian	34109	8676	20.28%	6.68
Russian	369326	63749	14.72%	0.92
Ukrainian	150223	28070	15.74%	2.34
Hungarian	91180	15933	14.87%	1.67
Catalan	129873	26986	17.20%	4.20
Tamil	19105	3832	16.71%	4.01
Georgian	8266	1815	18.00%	no data for 2016
Latvian	19175	4161	17.83%	3.73
English	1376012	306677	18.23%	1.93

User:Ijon/Content gap

Data as of June 15th 2016

Data as of February 2020

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