How Many People are Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr? - Williams Instute

Contents:

• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• THE ‘GLOBAL CLOSET’ IS HUGE—VAST MAJORY OF WORLD’S LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL POPULATN HI ORIENTATN, YSPH STUDY FDS
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE ARE THERE IN THE WORLD? LGBTQ REPRENTATN BREAKG THROUGH IN KIDS MOVI
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

The worldwi LGBTQ populatn by untry reports timate that approximately eight percent of the world intifi as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual. It is timated that the younger generatns are more likely to be open about their sexualy, wh Generatn Z beg the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual. Millennials are the next most likely to be openly gay, and Baby Boomers are the least likely to report or intify as openly gay.

5 percent of the populatn was heterosexual, while the remar of the populatn reported, intified as homosexual or asexual.

More women than men reported as homosexual, while 19 percent of women reported as said they had at least one same-sex attractn their life. 1 percent of the populatn intified as gay, and the remar intified as heterosexual.

THE ‘GLOBAL CLOSET’ IS HUGE—VAST MAJORY OF WORLD’S LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL POPULATN HI ORIENTATN, YSPH STUDY FDS

Of those that do intify as LGBTQ, over 50 percent of them are bisexual and 24 percent are gay, while 11 percent are lbian. In Canada, 1988, only one percent of the populatn would adm that they were gay. By 2012, five percent of the populatn were intifyg as gay, lbian, transgenr, or bisexual.

The age group most likely to say they were gay or bisexual was the age group of 18-34. Compared to many untri, cludg Canada, Israel has a higher than average gay populatn when parg LGBTQ populatn by untry.

Increasg numbers of populatn-based surveys the Uned Stat and across the world clu qutns that allow for an timate of the size of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn. Conversely, gay men prise substantially more than half of gay and bisexual men seven of the ne surveys.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

Unrstandg the size of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatn is a cril first step to rmg a host of public policy and rearch topics. In measurg sexual orientatn, lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals may be intified strictly based on their self-inty or may be possible to nsir same-sex sexual behavr or sexual attractn. Fdgs shown Figure 1 nsir timat of the percentage of adults who self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual across ne surveys nducted wh the past seven years.

While the surveys show a fairly wi variatn the overall percentage of adults who intify as LGB, the proportn who intify as lbian/gay vers bisexual is somewhat more nsistent (see Figure 2).

In six of the surveys, lbian- and gay-intified dividuals outnumbered bisexuals. The UK Integrated Hoehold Survey found the proportn to be two-thirds lbian/gay vers one-third bisexual. The Natnal Survey of Fay Growth found rults that were sentially the oppose of the UK survey wh only 38% intifyg as lbian or gay pared to 62% intifyg as bisexual.

HOW MANY GAY PEOPLE ARE THERE IN THE WORLD? LGBTQ REPRENTATN BREAKG THROUGH IN KIDS MOVI

The Natnal Survey of Sexual Health and Behavr and the Atralian Longudal Study of Health and Relatnships both found a majory of rponnts (55% and 59%, rpectively) intifyg as surveys show even greater nsistency differenc between men and women associated wh lbian/gay vers bisexual inty. Wh the surveys, a larger actn of adults report same-sex attractns and behavrs than self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (see Figure 4).

Separate averag are lculated for lbian and bisexual women along wh gay and bisexual men. It should be noted that some transgenr dividuals may intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

This is spl nearly evenly between lbian/gay and bisexual intified dividuals, 1. The vast majory of the world’s sexual mory populatn — an timated 83 percent of those who intify as lbian, gay or bisexual — keep their orientatn hidn om all or most of the people their liv, acrdg to a new study by the Yale School of Public Health that uld have major implitns for global public health. In Eastern Europe, for example, the study found that four-fifths of sexual mori reported ncealg their sexual orientatn, while nearby Northern and Wtern Europe, only about one-third reported dog rearchers quantified the size of the global closet by first gatherg figur om one of the world’s largt data sampl of sexual mori — the European Unn Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr survey.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

For example, one set of qutns may seek self-reported data on same-sex sexual experienc, while another set may seek data surroundg personal intifitn as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

Other stat wh LGBTQ+ protectns, such as Massachetts and Colorado, also have higher timated populatns of gay, lbian, bisexual, and otherwise non-heterosexual dividuals.