In 1948, Aled Ksey, an Amerin sexologist and rearcher, nclud an average of 1 10 people the world are gay. But his rults were flawed.
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HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GAY THE WORLD?
The aim is to prent updated timat of the size of Atralia’s sexual mory adult populatn (gay, lbian, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti). No timate of this populatn is currently available om the Atralian Bure of Statistics, and very ltle is available om other sourc. We obtaed data on sexual mory inti om three data llectns of two natnal surveys of recent years. Combg averaged prevalence rat om the surveys wh official Estimated Rint Populatn data, we produce timat of Atralia’s sexual mory populatn for recent years. Acrdg to percentag averaged across the three survey datasets, 3.6% of mal and 3.4% of femal scribed themselv wh a mory sexual inty. When applied to Estimated Rint Populatns, this giv a sexual mory populatn at ag 18 + Atralia of 599,500 2011 and 651,800 2016. Populatn timat were also produced by sex and broad age group, revealg larger numbers and higher sexual mory percentag the younger age groups, and smaller numbers and percentag the olst age group. Separate populatn timat were also prepared for lbian, gay, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti. * percentage of gay couples in australia *
In 2005, 2008 and 2011, rponnts age 15 years and over were asked to rate their level of agreement or disagreement wh the statement “Homosexual upl should have the same rights as heterosexual upl do” on a sle rangg om (1) strongly disagree to (7) strongly 1 shows the proportn of the rponnts who dited some level of agreement (i.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
Agreements refer to the ratgs of 5–7 on a sle om (1) strongly disagree to (7) strongly agree wh the statement that homosexual upl should have the same rights as heterosexual HILDA (2005, 2008, 2011)The support for equal rights between same-sex upl and oppose-sex upl has creased steadily om 38% 2005, to 45% 2008 to 51% proportn of rponnts who neher agreed nor disagreed wh the statement remaed stable across the three time pots, at 15– were more likely to endorse equal rights for same-sex upl.