Year % of female population 1960 3.38860292441986 1961 3.44243797024571 1962 3.46004783989571 1963 3.47333597566813 1964 3.50517395162164 1965 3.70492033933126 1966 3.90818321585469 1967 4.02019746608337 1968 4.24847249800674 1969 4.46978571055445 1970 4.55535813527584 1971 4.60427079015014 1972 4.73272904004965 1973 4.84262546787806 1974 4.9662638158507 1975 5.10516144427135 1976 5.2603694850552 1977 5.48678163959039 1978 5.64517256495381 1979 5.73336331521204 1980 5.66055951405383 1981 5.27660364756312 1982 4.7046705359711 1983 4.26085617194912 1984 4.00261876186893 1985 3.85568677966311 1986 3.98515994453666 1987 4.3437705407417 1988 4.73450154996288 1989 5.11057280586653 1990 5.53288105386137 1991 5.91313322257601 1992 6.16556631639872 1993 6.3421975546324 1994 6.42574595659924 1995 6.41598074369833 1996 6.28438648092281 1997 6.00770099037017 1998 5.56812947427769 1999 5.077825738375 2000 4.79810526363119 2001 4.85573668138237 2002 5.31083023618749 2003 6.01290716493421 2004 6.69872917188492 2005 7.08829226353045 2006 7.14786517423348 2007 6.78612172230396 2008 6.04694853489765 2009 5.30830998356349 2010 4.66655434076318 2011 4.23644526139807 2012 4.16561212823365 2013 4.41871264834425 2014 4.9055459234063 2015 5.49017104187577 2016 5.94622029185571 2017 6.24019768950619 2018 6.44222110736732 2019 6.50102292723178 2020 6.52456422093837 2021 6.60012641073482 2022 7.17264307358363 2023 7.76604190351534