What percentage identify as lgbtq
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 scant years, there was not much news to report. The percentage of Americans who identified as gay, lesbian, bi, transgender, or gender non-conforming was relatively shallow 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 grow in LGBTQ culture among the universal is worth noting, but it’s not the most key part of the story. Most of the uptick in LGBTQ identity over the past decade is due to a dramatic multiply among young adults, particularly young women. In less than a decade, the percentage of juvenile women who spot as LGBTQ has more than tripled.
The gender gap in LGBTQ identity has exploded as adv. A decade earlier, young women were only slightly more likely to determine as LGBTQ than young men. For instance, in 2015, 10 percent of young women and six percent of young men identified as
ICYMI: New Data Shows that Nearly 30% of Gen Z Adults Spot as LGBTQ+
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The differences along generational lines illustrate a positive shift in the social acceptance of Gay people, allowing younger generations to feel more content and more empowered to come out
WASHINGTON–New findings released this week from Widespread Religion Research Institute (PRRI) polling and focus groups conducted last August and September show that 28% of Gen Z adults (ages 18-25) identify as LGBTQ+, which is substantially higher than what’s been reported by other sources, such as Gallup. This increase highlights a positive change in the social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people amongst younger generations and is further proof that the American electorate will be increasingly more out and allied as members of Gen Z shift 18. In comparison, PRRI found that 16% of millennials, 7% of Generation X, 4% of infant boomers and 4% of the Silent Generation name as LGBTQ+.
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson released the following statement:
“Whether it’s at the polls, in marches and rallies, or online, LGBTQ+ public presence matters and Gen Z is a force for change. Tho
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. senior 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 numbers for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the mention level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults detect 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. dwell 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 survive in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LGBT
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Rises to 9.3%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup’s latest update on LGBTQ+ identification finds 9.3% of U.S. adults recognizing as lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual in 2024. This represents an grow of more than a percentage point versus the prior estimate, from 2023. Longer term, the figure has nearly doubled since 2020 and is up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup first measured it.
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LGBTQ+ identification is increasing as younger generations of Americans enter adulthood and are much more likely than older generations to say they are something other than heterosexual. More than one in five Gen Z adults -- those born between 1997 and 2006, who were between the ages of 18 and 27 in 2024 -- identify as LGBTQ+. Each older generation of adults, from millennials to the Silent Generation, has successively lower rates of identification, down to 1.8% among the oldest Americans, those born before 1946.
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LGBTQ+ identification rates among young people have also increased, from an average 18.8% of Gen Z adults in 2020 through 2022 to an average of 22.7% over the past two years.
Gallup has
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, bisexual, or pansexual. Approximately 80 percent of the world identifies as heterosexual, and the remaining 12 percent of the world do not report how they spot. This data is as recent as 2021.
It is estimated that the younger generations are more likely to be open about their sexuality, with Generation Z being the most likely to be openly gay, bisexual, or asexual or pansexual. Millennials are the next most likely to be openly same-sex attracted, and Baby Boomers are the least likely to report or identify as openly gay. Millennials and Generation Z are the age groups that drop between the ages of 27 and 42 in the year 2025.
Australia’s LGBTQI+ Population By the Numbers
Australia is considered to contain some of the most liberal views on the planet, but as such, it will not describe its sexuality-related statistics as frequently as other countries. In 2011, one state indicated that approximately 96.5 percent of the population was heterosexual while the remainder of the population reported identifying as