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.
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HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GAY THE WORLD?
* of australian population gay *
AbstractObjectivThe aim is to prent updated timat of the size of Atralia’s sexual mory adult populatn (gay, lbian, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti). Separate populatn timat were also prepared for lbian, gay, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
IntroductnHow many people Atralia intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual or an alternative sexual mory orientatn (e. For example, the feral Sex Discrimatn Act [9] prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, and the Aged Care Act [10] mentns “lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people” as a special needs paper updat and extends the sexual mory populatn timat for Atralia lculated prevly [3]. It then prents populatn timat for the sexual mory adult populatn of Atralia 2011 and 2016, cludg by age group, and by sexual inty (gay, lbian, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti) textData sourcData on the proportns of the populatn wh a specific sexual inty were sourced om three data llectns om two reprentative natnal hoehold surveys, namely the General Social Survey (GSS), and wav 12 and 16 of the Hoehold, Ine And Labour Dynamics Atralia (HILDA) Survey.
The proportns were lculated by sex for dividual sexual inty tegori (gay, lbian, bisexual, and other), and for the total sexual mory populatn—fed as the sum of those four tegori.