What percentage of the united states population identifies as lgbtq
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to blossom, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender nonconforming, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity.
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These results are based on aggregated data from 2023 Gallup telephone surveys, encompassing interviews with more than 12,000 Americans aged 18 and older. In each survey, Gallup asks respondents whether they identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender or something else. Overall, 85.6% say they are straight or heterosexual, 7.6% identify with one or more LGBTQ+ groups, and 6.8% decline to respond.
Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population -- 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of Gay adults say they are bisexual. Gay and queer woman are the next-most-common identities, each representing slightly over 1% of U.S. adults and roughly one in six LGBTQ+ adults. Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults and about one in eight LGBT
We Are Here: Gay Adult Population in Combined States Reaches At Least 20 Million, According to Human Rights Campaign Foundation Report
by Laurel Powell •
According to an study of data in the Census Bureau’s recent Familiar Pulse Survey, 8% of respondents identified themselves as LGBTQ+, suggesting previous surveys undercounted the population.
WASHINGTON -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) released “We Are Here: Comprehending the Size of the LGBTQ+ Community,” a announce analyzing recent results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. Based on data from respondents in the Household Pulse Survey, a national common probability survey of adults in the United States, at least 20 million adults in the Combined States could be female homosexual, gay, bisexual, or transsexual - nearly 8% of the total adult population, almost double prior estimates for the LGBTQ+ community’s size. It also suggests that more than 1% of people in the United States identify as transgender, higher than any prior estimates. Additionally, it confirms prior research demonstrating that bisexual people illustrate the largest single contingent of LGBTQ+ people, at about 4% of resp
How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?
Executive Summary
Recent data from the CDC’s Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) provide an opportunity to update prior population estimates of the number of adults and youth who identify as transgender in the U.S. In 2016 and 2017, the Williams Institute used data from the 2014-15 BRFSS to estimate the number of adults (ages 18 and older) and youth (ages 13 to 17) who identify as transgender. Since then, a total of 43 states have used the BRFSS optional gender identity module for at least one year, providing more years of numbers from more states since these initial estimates. Additionally, in 2017, the YRBS, a national survey of high school students, began asking respondents if they are transgender. Since 2017, fifteen states have included this question in their YRBS statewide questionnaire. In this study, we utilize data from the 2017 and 2019 YRBS and the 2017- 2020 BRFSS to find that:
- Over 1.6 million adults (ages 18 and older) and youth (ages 13 to 17) identify as transgender in the United States, or 0.6% of those ages 13 and older.
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ICYMI: Gallup Poll Finds Almost 1 in 10 in U.S. Identify as LGBTQ+, a Register Amount
by Delphine Luneau •
Polling Statistics Suggests There Are More than 31.7 Million LGBTQ+ Adults in U.S. — And it May Be an Underestimate, Expert Says
WASHINGTON — New polling out today from Gallup, as reported in the New York Times, shows that almost 1 in 10 adults in the U.S. identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, a breathtaking increase from a few years ago that shows how the soar in acceptance of LGBTQ+ identities over the course of the past limited decades has made people more content to be who they truly are — even in the face of state and national politicians weaponizing their power to aim to strip away LGBTQ+ rights.
The polling of 14,000 adults showed that 9.3 percent identified as LGBTQ+, including 5.2 percent identifying as bisexual, 2 percent as gay, 1.4 percent as female homosexual and 1.3 percent as transgender. Applied to a national population of 341 million people, that would be 31.7 million LGBTQ+ adults, including 17.7 million double attraction people, 6.8 million gay people, 4.8 million lesbians and 4.4 million transsexual people.
“This polling reflects what we’ve been saying all a
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 facts for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the express level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults name 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. exist 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 dwell in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LGBT