Table 6: Men and Women By Age Band17
Age
Bands
Registration
Rate of men
Registration
Rate of
women
18 - 19
8%
8%
20 - 24
23%
18%
25 - 29
62%
47%
30 - 34
118%
98%
34 - 39
142%
124%
40 - 44
166%
153%
45 - 49
149%
118%
50 - 54
137%
132%
55 - 59
125%
123%
60 -64
116%
121%
65+
150%
158%
Totals
94%
85%
Although there is a ratio of 52:48 for all females to males nationally, the ratio of females
to males in the adult population is somewhat higher 54:46.18 Accordingly, the percentage of adult
women registered as voters (85%) is lower than that of men (94%).19
However, a somewhat different picture emerges when the same parameters are
considered by province. Table 7 shows the registration rates by gender in the ten provinces.
There is a marked difference between the two metropolitan provinces and non-metropolitan
provinces where the registration rate20 of women in the latter is higher than that of men. The
exception is Mashonaland West,21 possibly on account of the large number of urban
constituencies in that province.
Table 7: Gender Comparison – June Voters’ Roll and 2012 Census (By Numbers)
PROVINCE
POPULATION [2012 CENSUS]
VOTERS [2013 JUNE ROLL]
Adult
Males
158,312
Adult
Females
182,639
Males
Harare
526,152
Manicaland
Mashonaland Central
Bulawayo
Total
Females
Total
340,951
159,241
141,502
300,743
564,911
1,091,063
435,473
353,486
788,959
367,232
409,873
777,105
341,963
412,019
753,982
291,045
301,724
592,769
261,082
276,626
537,708
Using the total of 6 234 931 men and 6 738 877 women as per the 2012 Census.
54.25:45.75, without rounding off.
19 The age band percentages used in Table 6, which is a summary of the tables in Appendix 4, differ from
Table 1. It was necessary to use the age band percentages from the later Zimstat report, as the gender
breakdown across age bands was provided there. This data has not been used throughout as the age
bands in that report stop at 65+. The earlier report stops at 85+ and is more useful for current
purposes.
20 Note this is the registration rate, and the difference is thus not due to the greater number of women
than men in these provinces – which is the case in the metropolitan provinces also.
21 Mashonaland West is frequently out of kilter, statistically, with the other two Mashonaland Provinces.
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