Chapter 8 Figure 22 | Demographic characteristics of refugee population by UNHCR regions | end-2018 Female Children 57% 52% 49% 45% 44% 47% 49% 48% 41% 37% Africa* Europe Americas * Excluding North Africa. Middle East and North Africa Asia and Pacific people, 86 per cent of the population. For age disaggregation, this was 16.4 million people or 80 per cent. The coverage for asylum-seekers for sex-disaggregated data was 48 per cent of the population, and for age it was 46 per cent. Among IDPs, sex-disaggregation covered 70 per cent of the population, compared with only 30 per cent for age-disaggregated data coverage. 2018 for more than 1,000 refugees, Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)) and Bosnia and Herzegovina had the highest female proportion with 58 per cent. This was followed by Togo with 56 per cent and Nigeria and Chad with 55 per cent. The lowest proportion was reported in Ecuador with 24 per cent, followed by Malta (27 per cent), Indonesia (28 per cent) and the Republic of Korea (29 per cent). Based on the available data, the proportion of women and girls in the refugee population was 48 per cent in 2018, similar to the past few years. Children represented about half of the refugee population, also similar to previous years. It should be noted that the availability of data on age is biased toward countries where UNHCR carries out refugee registration which tend to be lower-income countries with a younger age structure. Therefore, it is likely that the proportion of children in the refugee population overall is lower. The proportion of working age population (18-59 years) remained constant at 46 per cent, and the proportion aged 60 and older was 3 per cent. The proportion of children among the refugee population also varied widely in 2018. Among countries reporting age-disaggregated data for more than 1,000 refugees, DRC reported the greatest proportion of children with 63 per cent under the age of 18, followed by South Sudan (62 per cent) and Uganda (62 per cent), which reflects the young age structure of the population of many countries in the region. The lowest proportion of children in 2018 was reported by Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)) with only about 1 per cent of the population, followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina (6 per cent) and Argentina (9 per cent). At the country level, there was wide variation in the sex and age breakdown of hosted refugees. Among countries that reported sex-disaggregated data in unhcr > Global trends 2018 These differences are also seen at a regional level [Figure 22]. The lowest proportion of both children and women was seen in the refugee population in Europe where only 44 per cent of the refugee 61