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

Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• WHAT PERCENT OF THE POPULATN IS GAY? MORE THAN YOU THK
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• MAJORY WORLDWI NOW SAY THEIR AREA IS GOOD FOR GAY PEOPLE
• 15 GAYT COUNTRI THE WORLD PER CAPA

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

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.

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

Millennials are the next most likely to be openly gay, and Baby Boomers are the least likely to report or intify as openly gay. In 2011, one report dited that approximately 96.5 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.

By 2020, a separate study found that 7.1 percent of the populatn intified as gay, and the remar intified as heterosexual.

WHAT PERCENT OF THE POPULATN IS GAY? MORE THAN YOU THK

Of those that do intify as LGBTQ, over 50 percent of them are bisexual and 24 percent are gay, while 11 percent are lbian. Compared to many untri, cludg Canada, Israel has a higher than average gay populatn when parg LGBTQ populatn by untry.

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

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

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. As was 2013, when the qutn was last asked, attus on the acceptance of homosexualy are shaped by the untry which people live. Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai.

In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007. There also have been fairly large shifts acceptance of homosexualy over the past 17 years two very different plac: Mexi and Japan.

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”).

MAJORY WORLDWI NOW SAY THEIR AREA IS GOOD FOR GAY PEOPLE

In general, people wealthier and more veloped enomi are more acceptg of homosexualy than are those ls wealthy and veloped enomi.

For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. By ntrast, Nigeria, Kenya and Ukrae, where per-pa GDP is unr $10, 000, ls than two--ten say that homosexualy should be accepted by society.

15 GAYT COUNTRI THE WORLD PER CAPA

The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. The 2019 survey shows that while majori 16 of the 34 untri surveyed say homosexualy should be accepted by society, global divis rema.

Across the 34 untri surveyed, a median of 52% agree that homosexualy should be accepted wh 38% sayg that should be disuraged. Central and Eastern Europeans, however, are more divid on the subject, wh a median of 46% who say homosexualy should be accepted and 44% sayg should not be.

But sub-Saharan Ai, the Middle East, Rsia and Ukrae, few say that society should accept homosexualy; only South Ai (54%) and Israel (47%) do more than a quarter hold this view. More than three-quarters of those surveyed Atralia (81%) say homosexualy should be accepted, as do 73% of Filipos. Sce 1994, and there has been a relatively steady crease the share who say that homosexualy should be accepted by society sce 2000.

However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. More than eight--ten Democrats and Democratic-leang pennts (85%) say homosexualy should be accepted, but only 58% of Republins and Republin leaners say the same. (For more on Amerin views of homosexualy, LGBT issu and same-sex marriage, see Pew Rearch Center’s topic page here; U.

In 22 of 34 untri surveyed, younger adults are signifintly more likely than their olr unterparts to say homosexualy should be accepted by society. This difference was most pronounced South Korea, where 79% of 18- to 29-year-olds say homosexualy should be accepted by society, pared wh only 23% of those 50 and olr.

This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society. However, for all 12 untri surveyed where there was signifint difference, women were more likely to approve of homosexualy than men. In most untri surveyed, those who have greater levels of tn are signifintly more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted society than those who have ls tn.

For example, Greece, 72% of those wh a postsendary tn or more say homosexualy is acceptable, pared wh 42% of those wh a sendary tn or ls who say this.