More Brons than ever before intify as lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB), meang the natn's gay and bi muny grew by more than 15% a year to reach 1.4 ln people, the latt ernment figur showed on Thursday.
Contents:
- NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL THE UK 2014-2020
- THREE PERCENT ENGLAND AND WAL INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL -CENS
- MORE BRONS THAN EVER BEFORE INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL
- IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, OR BISEXUAL THE UK 2014-2020
There were timated to be approximately 1.65 ln people the Uned Kgdom who intified as beg Gay, Lbianm or Bisexual 2020, pared wh 843,00 2014. * percentage of uk population who are gay *
1% of the UK populatn aged 16 years and over intified as lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) 2020, an crease om 2. Sexual inty may change over orientatn tegorised as "other"The "other" tegory ptur people who do not nsir themselv to f to the heterosexual or straight, bisexual, gay, or lbian tegori.
2%) intified wh an LGB+ orientatn (“Gay or Lbian”, “Bisexual” or “Other sexual orientatn”).
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THREE PERCENT ENGLAND AND WAL INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL -CENS
Around 3% of people England and Wal aged 16 or over intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, acrdg to 2021 cens data released on Friday. * percentage of uk population who are gay *
3 ln people England and Wal intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, cens data has revealed for the first people aged 16 and over, more than 1. 6 was circulated, the ernment said the rmatn would provi evince about equali to tackle discrimatn and improve cisns ma about health re, tn, employment, hog and social servic for lbian, gay and bisexual people.
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0%) chose not to disclose their genr who did answer were able to select om optns cludg heterosexual, gay, lbian and bisexual.
MORE BRONS THAN EVER BEFORE INTIFY AS LBIAN, GAY OR BISEXUAL
However, prev surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, and recent years there has been a small gradual cle the number of people intifyg as exclively straight.
7% of the UK populatn aged 16 years and over intified as lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) 2019, an crease om 2.
IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
4 ln people aged 16 and over the UK intified as lbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) 2019 - a statistilly signifint crease om 1. Figure 1: Compared wh 2018, a lower proportn of people intified as heterosexual and a higher proportn intified as gay, lbian or bisexual 2019.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
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.
Figure 2: Men are more likely to intify as gay or lbian, while women are more likely to intify as bisexual.