About 9 percent of adults from around the world identify themselves as LGBTQ, according to a global survey released Thursday.
The survey conducted by Ipsos found that 3 percent of people around the world identify themselves as lesbian or gay, 4 percent as bisexual, 0.9 percent as pansexual and 0.9 percent as asexual. The survey noted that those in Generation Z – people born after 1997 – are more than twice as likely to identify as bisexual, pansexual or asexual than millennials and more than four times as likely as Generation X and baby boomers. boomers.
In the 30 different countries surveyed, those who identified as LGBTQ ranged from 4 percent in Peru to 15 percent in Brazil. About 9 percent of survey respondents in the United States identified as LGBTQ, a one percent decrease since 2021.
Spain is the country with the highest share of those who say they are gay or lesbian at 6 percent, and Brazil and the Netherlands are most likely to say they are bisexual at 7 percent, according to the survey. The survey says that Japan is the country with the fewest respondents who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual.
When asked about their gender, 1 percent of respondents worldwide said they identified as transgender, 1 percent said they were non-binary, gender non-conforming or gender fluid, and 1 percent said -say they don’t identify as male or female. This includes 6 percent of Gen Z, 3 percent of millennials, and 1 percent of baby boomers or Gen X.
The survey says that LGBTQ visibility has increased in the past two years, with 1 in 2 adults saying they have a relative, friend or colleague who is gay or lesbian. Additionally, 1 in 4 said the same thing for someone who is bisexual, and 1 in 8 said the same thing for someone who is transgender.
The survey added that women are more likely to report knowing someone who identifies as LGBTQ.
Average support for allowing legal same-sex marriage is 56 percent in 30 countries, with the highest percentages in the Netherlands and Portugal at 80 percent. Turkey has the lowest share at 20 percent who say they support same-sex legal marriage. The United States had 54 percent of respondents say they support legal same-sex marriage.
Ipsos surveyed 22,514 adults between February 17 and March 3. Margins of error vary based on sample sizes from each country but range from plus or minus 3.5 percentage points to plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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