Number of countries protecting core LGBT+ rights
Countries that fully implement these core policies. Countries that only partially implement them, such as when laws differ across the country, are not included.
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- Human Rights
- LGBT+ Rights
- LGBT+ rights have become more protected in dozens of countries, but are not recognized across most of the world
Charts
- Age of consent for same-sex and different-sex partnersVelasco
- Age of consent for same-sex and different-sex partnersEqualdex
- Blood donations by men who have sex with men
- Censorship of LGBT issues
- Constitutional protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity
- Conversion therapiesEqualdex
- Conversion therapies bannedVelasco
- Countries by legal status of same-sex marriage
- Countries in which gender marker can be legally changed
- Countries in which same-sex sexual acts are legalMignot, long-run data
- Countries in which third gender is recognized
- Countries with joint adoptions by same-sex partners
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity
- Employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identityEqualdex
- Employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity prohibitedVelasco
- Gender assignment surgeries on children banned
- Gender marker can be legally changedVelasco
- Gender marker changeEqualdex
- Gender-affirming careEqualdex
- Hate crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity are an aggravating circumstance
- Housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity
- Inciting crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity is illegal
- Intersex infant surgeryEqualdex
- Joint adoptions by same-sex partnersVelasco
- Joint adoptions by same-sex partnersEqualdex
- LGBT+ legal equality index
- LGBT+ rights index
- Legal status of same-sex sexual actsEqualdex
- Legal status of same-sex sexual actsMignot, long-run data
- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people allowed to openly serve in the military
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people serve openly in the militaryEqualdex
- Marriage for same-sex partnersVelasco
- Marriage for same-sex partnersEqualdex
- Number of countries where same-sex marriage is legalPew Research Center
- People living in countries in which a third gender is recognized
- People living in countries in which gender marker can be legally changed
- People living in countries in which same-sex sexual acts are legalMignot, long-run data
- People living in countries with joint adoptions by same-sex partners
- People living in countries with marriage for same-sex partnersPew Research Center
- Population by legal status of same-sex marriage
- Public morality laws on non-traditional sexual relations
- Same-sex sexual acts legalVelasco
- Same-sex sexual acts punished by deathVelasco
- Share of people saying they do not want homosexual neighbors
- Share of people who think homosexual couples are as good parents as other couples
- Share of people who think homosexuality is never justified
- Third gender legally recognizedEqualdex
- Third gender legally recognizedVelasco
- Transgender people are allowed to openly serve in the militaryVelasco