Blogger Paul Francis has analysed Facebook's user data and found that more members are women. In his corrected results, there are 42,966,780 members, with 36% male and 42% female. Another 22% have left their sex unspecified. Initially, Francis overlooked this element, and concluded that almost two thirds of Facebook users were women.
In a few countries, there are apparently more male members than females. These include Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Lebanon and Pakistan -- all Muslim countries. However, there may be more women members who leave their sex unspecified, for obvious reasons. Turkey, for example, which scores only 20% female, has 50% unspecified.
Not surprisingly, the US is the top nation with 18m members. The UK (6.8m) and Canada (6.7m) come next, followed by Australia (1.9m) and Turkey (1.6m). The numbers for Canada and Australia are particularly impressive, given the relatively small size of their populations.
The numbers for Germany (366,000), Spain (223,380) and Italy (161,800) are mediocre, but these are still early days for social networking.....
Bear in mind that these are unofficial numbers and based on search not real membership data, but they are probably not too far out.
