U.S. adults timate that nearly one four Amerins (23.6%) are gay or lbian. Gallup has prevly found that Amerins have greatly overtimated the U.S. gay populatn.
Contents:
- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
- AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
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 population in australia *
The worldwi LGBTQ populatn by untry reports timate that approximately eight percent of the world intifi as homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual.
AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * percentage of gay population in australia *
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. 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.