1.5% of the Brish populatn is gay, says the Office for Natnal Statistics. See who liv where, how they are employed - and how likely they are to be smokers
Contents:
- GAY BRA: SI THE ONS STATISTICS
- NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL THE UK 2014-2020
- THE ARE THE PARTS OF THE UK WH THE MOST LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE
- IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
GAY BRA: SI THE ONS STATISTICS
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NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL THE UK 2014-2020
Gay people are much more likely to be managerial or profsnal occupatns – 49% pared wh 30% for straight workers - and better ted, wh 38% holdg a gree. Their age profile is also much younger than the rt of the populatn, wh 66% unr the age of 44 and 17% aged 16 to 24… Jt over 45% of the gay muny are habg, although only 8% live a hoehold wh at least one child prent.
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THE ARE THE PARTS OF THE UK WH THE MOST LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE
6% Wal) English regn wh the hight proportn of people who intified wh a LGB+ orientatn (“gay or lbian”, “bisexual”, or “other sexual orientatn”) was London (4. LGB+An abbreviatn ed to refer to people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, and other mory sexual orientatns (for example, asexual) orientatnSexual orientatn is an umbrella term verg sexual inty, attractn, and behavur. This reprents a ntuatn of a trend that has been observed back to 2014, where a higher proportn of men than women intify as gay or lbian and a higher proportn of women than men intify as bisexual.
IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
A possible reason for this pattern is that younger people uld be more likely to explore their sexualy bed wh more social acceptabily of different sexual inti and the abily to exprs the 3: Younger people are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual than olr age groupsLbian, gay or bisexual populatn by age and sex, UK, 2018 and UK populatn by age and sex, 2018. Download this image Figure 4: In 2018, a smaller proportn of people Northern Ireland intified themselv as lbian, gay or bisexual than other UK untri. Download this chart Figure 6: People intifyg as lbian, gay or bisexual are most likely to have a maral stat of sgle (never married or civil partnered).
Sexual inty do not necsarily reflect sexual attractn and/or sexual behavur, which are separate ncepts not currently measured by the Annual Populatn Survey (APS) orientatn tegorised as “other”The “other” tegory ptur people who do not nsir themselv to f to the heterosexual or straight, gay or lbian, or bisexual tegori. The timat are maly ed to provi evince and to rm the monorg of the Equaly Act 2010, alongsi providg timat of the lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) populatn for service bullet prents the sexual orientatn timat as percentag.
Download this chart Figure 1: Compared wh 2018, a lower proportn of people intified as heterosexual and a higher proportn intified as gay, lbian or bisexual 2019. Of all age groups, younger people (aged 16 to 24 years) were most likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) 2019 (an timated 459, 000, or 6.