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No. This is driven by a huge reliance on foreign migrant labor, which is overwhelmingly male.

> immigrants make up about 87.9% of the total population

The makeup of the native population probably isn't unbalanced-- rather, women aren't coming to the UAE to work.

Female infanticide.

A lot of people in the gulf countries are temporary migrant workers, actual saudi population is closer to 50/50