Lgbtq population statistics
What’s Behind the Rapid Rise in LGBTQ Identity?
Newsletter March 6, 2025
Daniel A. Cox, Jae Grace, Avery Shields
Since 2012, Gallup has tracked the size of America’s LGBTQ population. For the first not many years, there was not much news to report. The percentage of Americans who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual person, transgender, or gender non-conforming was relatively depressed and inching up slowly year over year. Recently, the pace has sped up. Gallup’s newest report recorded the single largest one-year increase in LGBTQ identity. In 2024, nearly one in ten (9.3 percent) Americans identify as LGBTQ.
The steady climb in LGBTQ individuality among the general is worth noting, but it’s not the most significant part of the story. Most of the uptick in LGBTQ identity over the past decade is due to a dramatic amplify among young adults, particularly young women. In less than a decade, the percentage of new women who name as LGBTQ has more than tripled.
The gender gap in LGBTQ identity has exploded as successfully. A decade earlier, young women were only slightly more likely to distinguish as LGBTQ than young men. For instance, in 2015, 10 percent of young women and six percent of young men identified as
Estimates and characteristics of LGBTI+ populations in Australia
Socioeconomic profile of the 2SLGBTQ+ population aged 15 years and older, 2019 to 2021
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Released: 2024-01-25
Statistics Canada released three data tables on the population who is Two-Spirit, lesbian, queer , bisexual, transgender and gay, or who uses other terms related to gender and sexual diversity (2SLGBTQ+). Using combined cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) (2019 to 2021), these tables help fill a data gap on the 2SLGBTQ+ population in Canada.
Data on selected socioeconomic characteristics for the 2SLGBTQ+ population are available, with separate tables for the trans and non-binary population, and for the population whose reported sexual orientation is lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation that is not heterosexual (LGB+).
Overall, 1 in 10 youth report being 2SLGBTQ+
According to data from the 2019 to 2021 CCHS, approximately 1.3 million people, or 4.4% of the Canadian population aged
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS 2020-2021 statistics for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of facts provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost 13.9 million (13,942,200) LGBT adults in the U.S.
Regions and States
LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the United States,more LGBT adults live in the South than in any other region. More than half (57.0%) of LGBT people in the U.S. live in the Midwest (21.1%) and South (35.9%), including 2.9 million in the Midwest and 5.0 million in the South. About one-quarter (24.5%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately 3.4 million people. Less than one in five (18.5%) LGBT adults inhabit in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LGBT
Which Country Has the Largest LGBTQI+ Population? 2025
The worldwide LGBTQI+ population by country reports estimate that approximately eight percent of the world identifies as homosexual, pansexual, or pansexual. Approximately 80 percent of the world identifies as heterosexual, and the remaining 12 percent of the world do not report how they identify. This numbers is as recent as 2021.
It is estimated that the younger generations are more likely to be open about their sexuality, with Generation Z organism the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual. Millennials are the next most likely to be openly gay, and Child Boomers are the least likely to report or recognize as openly male lover. Millennials and Generation Z are the age groups that fall between the ages of 27 and 42 in the year 2025.
Australia’s LGBTQI+ Population By the Numbers
Australia is considered to hold some of the most liberal views on the world, but as such, it will not report its sexuality-related statistics as frequently as other countries. In 2011, one report indicated that approximately 96.5 percent of the population was heterosexual while the remainder of the population reported identifying as