Country rankings
Inbreeding by Country
Pakistan has the highest Consanguineous Marriages (61.2%), followed by Kuwait (54.3%) and Qatar (54.0%). Belize has the lowest (0.1%).
CultureHealth72 countries · 2 metricsUpdated Nov 7, 2024Original page
15 sources
- Consanguinity and reproductive health among Arabs - National Library of Medicine
- Consang
- Table 1 Consanguinity rates in Arab populations - Reproductive Health Journal
- Inbreeding - Wiki
- A comparison of inbreeding rates in India, Japan, Europe and China - PubMed
- Inbreeding and diseases: demographic, genetic, and epidemiologic perspectives - PubMed
- Inbreeding Levels in Different Countries - Social Biology
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- Consanguinity - Wiki
- Cousin marriage in the Middle East - Wiki
- Cousin Marriage - Wiki
- Consanguineous marriages - National Library of Medicine
- Global prevalence of consanguinity - Wiki
- Number of marriages, number of marriages between first cousins and proportion of them by provinces - Turkish Statistical Institute
- The changing profile of consanguinity rates in Bahrain, 1990-2009 - Cambridge University Press
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Consanguineous Marriages
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Ranking
Highest first: the first 15 and last 5 of 72 countries.
Distribution Median and middle halfThe median is the middle value: half of places are above it, half below. The middle half is the range holding the central 50% of places.More in the glossary →
Each dot is one country; the lines mark the median and the middle half.
Median
3.35%
Middle half 0.65% – 26.4%
Average
14.9%
72 countries
Highest
61.2%
Pakistan
Lowest
0.1%
Belize
Data
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72 countries · # = rank by Consanguineous Marriages
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Pakistan | 61.2% | 0.033 |
| 2 |  Kuwait | 54.3% | 0.016 |
| 3 |  Qatar | 54.0% | — |
| 4 |  United Arab Emirates | 50.5% | 0.016 |
| 5 |  Sudan | 50.0% | 0.03 |
| 5 |  South Sudan | 50.0% | 0.03 |
| 7 |  Afghanistan | 49.0% | 0.032 |
| 8 |  Mauritania | 47.2% | — |
| 9 |  Iraq | 46.4% | 0.023 |
| 10 |  Yemen | 44.7% | 0.021 |
| 11 |  Iran | 39.5% | 0.021 |
| 12 |  Saudi Arabia | 38.9% | 0.024 |
| 13 |  Libya | 37.6% | — |
| 14 |  Oman | 35.9% | 0.017 |
| 15 |  Syria | 35.0% | — |
| 16 |  Palestine | 31.6% | 0.02 |
| 17 |  Egypt | 29.0% | 0.01 |
| 18 |  Jordan | 28.0% | 0.023 |
| 19 |  Guinea | 25.9% | 0.013 |
| 20 |  Lebanon | 25.0% | — |
| 21 |  Sri Lanka | 23.0% | 0.009 |
| 22 |  Algeria | 22.6% | 0.015 |
| 23 |  Turkey | 21.1% | 0.01 |
| 23 |  Tunisia | 21.1% | 0.01 |
| 25 |  Nigeria | 19.9% | 0.024 |
| 25 |  Morocco | 19.9% | — |
| 27 |  Bangladesh | 17.0% | 0.01 |
| 28 |  Bahrain | 11.4% | — |
| 29 |  Israel | 10.4% | — |
| 30 |  India | 7.5% | — |
| 31 |  Malaysia | 6% | — |
| 31 |  Cambodia | 6% | — |
| 33 |  El Salvador | 4.9% | 0.001 |
| 34 |  Japan | 3.9% | 0.001 |
| 35 |  Honduras | 3.4% | — |
| 35 |  Costa Rica | 3.4% | 0.001 |
| 37 |  Puerto Rico | 3.3% | 0.001 |
| 38 |  Colombia | 3% | 0.001 |
| 39 |  France | 2.6% | 0.001 |
| 40 |  China | 2% | 0.001 |
| 40 |  Brazil | 2% | 0.002 |
| 40 |  Germany | 2% | 0.001 |
| 40 |  Spain | 2% | 0.001 |
| 40 |  Ecuador | 2% | 0.002 |
| 40 |  Uruguay | 2% | 0.002 |
| 46 |  Canada | 1.5% | 0.001 |
| 46 |  Portugal | 1.5% | 0.001 |
| 48 |  Mexico | 1.3% | — |
| 48 |  Venezuela | 1.3% | 0.001 |
| 48 |  Chile | 1.3% | 0.001 |
| 51 |  United Kingdom | 1.1% | — |
| 51 |  Italy | 1.1% | — |
| 53 |  Belgium | 1% | — |
| 54 |  Norway | 0.7% | — |
| 55 |  Hungary | 0.5% | — |
| 56 |  Argentina | 0.4% | — |
| 57 |  Australia | 0.2% | — |
| 57 |  Bolivia | 0.2% | — |
| 59 |  United States | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Russia | 0.1% | 0.001 |
| 59 |  Philippines | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Ukraine | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Peru | 0.1% | 0.001 |
| 59 |  Netherlands | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Cuba | 0.1% | 0.005 |
| 59 |  Sweden | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Belarus | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Slovakia | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Ireland | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Panama | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Croatia | 0.1% | — |
| 59 |  Belize | 0.1% | — |
What correlates with Consanguineous Marriages?
Pearson r against 1,667 other country metrics sharing at least 44 countries. Ranks are read by standing: a better rank counts as higher, whether rank 1 is the best place on a list or the worst. Correlation is not causation.
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Opposite directions
Places that have a higher Consanguineous Marriages tend to score lower on these (or rank worse)
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Quick answers
- Which country has the highest Consanguineous Marriages?
- Pakistan has the highest Consanguineous Marriages, at 61.2%, followed by Kuwait (54.3%) and Qatar (54.0%).
- Which country has the lowest Consanguineous Marriages?
- Belize has the lowest Consanguineous Marriages, at 0.1%.
- What is the median Consanguineous Marriages across countries?
- The median is 3.35% across the 72 countries with data.
- Where does this inbreeding by country data come from?
- Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Consanguinity and reproductive health among Arabs - National Library of Medicine; Consang; Table 1 Consanguinity rates in Arab populations - Reproductive Health Journal; Inbreeding - Wiki.