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Cross-Gender Social Ties Around the World (mander.xyz)

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Based on the study Cross-Gender Social Ties Around the World, By Michael Bailey, Drew Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, Johannes Stroebel.

More maps: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu//~jstroebe/PDF/BJKKS/_GenderTies/_Appendix.pdf

Aggregated data: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cross-gender-ties

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[–] yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is northern Africa so much more red than the rest of Africa?

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Muslim countries. Sub-Saharan Africa is mostly Christian due to colonization.

[–] yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There must be another factor to this as well since the split is mostly the topmost countries some of the majority Islamic countries in this map are blue in the other map

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

This map is from data from Facebook. I found some country statistics about Facebook usage per country, and yes it's much rarely used in Sub-Saharan Africa, so smaller sample size can also play a role:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/facebook-users-by-country