Why use two almost indistinguishable shades of green? More colors exist….
Edit: I’m not color blind, I can see they’re different. A better practice when making a chart is to use more distinct colors. Green vs purple is more clear than green vs slightly lighter green.
Mr_Mammoth-man on
What is a gender marker change?
Charlz_ on
Why is it in most of these maps that there is allegedly no data for Greenland? An under one minute Google search brings up the passing of same-sex marriage legislation in 2016…
marilynmedusa on
The only thing Im proud of Spain
goinupthegranby on
Thank you Liberal Party of Canada for making our country one of the most LGBT friendly places in the world
linguaphyte on
Nepal is the only one marked “ambiguous” I think.
They had a supreme Court ruling, just like Taiwan, that directed the legislature to legalize it. I guess they haven’t done so yet. Taiwan did, but gay spouses still don’t have the same privileges given to straight spouses.
Proud-Cartoonist-431 on
Which region in Russia bans the sex?
koolaidsocietyleader on
Is gay marriage ok?
Groenland: no comments
Is adoption ok for gays?
Groenland: no comments
Is it ok to be trans?
Groenland: no comments
Weazelfish on
You can legally change your gender in Pakistan?
Brandytrident on
South Africa may have it all legalized but the reality is outside of some very small pockets of the country, the discrimination against LGBT people is very real.
marwayne on
It’s crazy how bombing people to oblivion and raping and pillaging for resources leaving them generationally traumatized and impoverished impacts a society’s ability to progress
Who woulda thought?
esmelusina on
This is not beautiful. The colors are very close to each other.
JuanStLaurent on
What does “Ambiguous” mean in graphs 1, 3 and 4?
Also.. what’s up with Italy? stick outs like a sore thumb in almost every graph?
kirbcake-inuinuinuko on
O BRASIL É O MELHOR PAÍS NOVAMENTE 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Jorost on
Unfortunately the USA might not remain blue much longer if the conservatives in SCOTUS get their way.
Gargomon251 on
Punishing same-sex acts by death is crazy work
jatawis on
map is outdated, Lithuania has registered partnerships.
GladiusNocturno on
Here is a perspective from a Venezuelan.
It’s immensely frustrating whenever I read American leftists defend the dictatorship of our country simply because they claim to be socialists, and the US doesn’t like them. And part of the frustration is that they tend to be painted as the good guys who are poor victims of the US, when it couldn’t be further from the truth.
American leftists seem to be under the impression that the Venezuelan dictatorship is a progressive socialist government that only struggles because the US bullies them. When in reality, they are defending a totalitarian military oligarchy with conservative practices. And this chart illustrates that.
LGBT rights do not exist in Venezuela, and not only have Chavez and Maduro never made an attempt to improve that, but they also often used and still use homophobic remarks to attack their political opponents. This is not a progressive government. Leftist movements born from Guerrillas are not inherently an inclusive and benevolent group. And the mistreatment of the LGBT community in Venezuela is not something you can blame on the US sanctions, which is always the excuse used whenever we Venezuelans want to call out the violations of our dictators.
The Chavista movement has always been a populist military dictatorship whose tactics of hatred, corruption, and their speeches are more similar to Trump’s America than American leftists and conservatives want to admit or even care to look up.
Venezuela is not the little socialist country that tried but was bullied into failing, like foreign tankies claim, like Hasan Piker, and especially Alan Macleod, who has profited from being a Maduro propagandist.
Dolapevich on
I wonder what is going on at New Zeland, I took them for even better Australians, ¿isn’t it?
Kakajoju on
Last year the Czech Constitutional Court ruled that requiring surgery for the gender marker change is unconstitutional so the law has until the end of June this year to change, thankfully.
Inevitable-Box-4751 on
What’s the difference/meaning of second parent and individual adoption? Are they saying only singles can adopt?
Perfect-Whereas-1478 on
yooo, my country mention 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 (help)
durrtyurr on
What the fuck is going on in the middle east? well over half of the arab men I know are gay, and that’s why I figured that arab nations allowed polygamy.
Tantomare on
LGBT rights were drastically reduced in Russia in a few years. People could officially change gender in passport before the Ukrainian war and now you can be accused of a crime for wearing a rainbow pin
Guuhatsu on
Wait, same sex marriage is banned in Japan? Don’t they have people marrying computer programs and anime “waifus” there? I am not judging anything, but the illegal one seems far less extreme to me.
![[OC] How do the rights of LGBT+ people vary across the world?](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/p686exw0tdze1-819x1024.png "[OC] How do the rights of LGBT+ people vary across the world?")
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Data source: [Equaldex (2025)](https://www.equaldex.com/)
Tools used: The [Our World in Data Grapher](https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher) with finishing touches in Figma.
Read more and explore the data across time in interactive charts in [our article](https://ourworldindata.org/progress-lgbt-rights).
Why use two almost indistinguishable shades of green? More colors exist….
Edit: I’m not color blind, I can see they’re different. A better practice when making a chart is to use more distinct colors. Green vs purple is more clear than green vs slightly lighter green.
What is a gender marker change?
Why is it in most of these maps that there is allegedly no data for Greenland? An under one minute Google search brings up the passing of same-sex marriage legislation in 2016…
The only thing Im proud of Spain
Thank you Liberal Party of Canada for making our country one of the most LGBT friendly places in the world
Nepal is the only one marked “ambiguous” I think.
They had a supreme Court ruling, just like Taiwan, that directed the legislature to legalize it. I guess they haven’t done so yet. Taiwan did, but gay spouses still don’t have the same privileges given to straight spouses.
Which region in Russia bans the sex?
Is gay marriage ok?
Groenland: no comments
Is adoption ok for gays?
Groenland: no comments
Is it ok to be trans?
Groenland: no comments
You can legally change your gender in Pakistan?
South Africa may have it all legalized but the reality is outside of some very small pockets of the country, the discrimination against LGBT people is very real.
It’s crazy how bombing people to oblivion and raping and pillaging for resources leaving them generationally traumatized and impoverished impacts a society’s ability to progress
Who woulda thought?
This is not beautiful. The colors are very close to each other.
What does “Ambiguous” mean in graphs 1, 3 and 4?
Also.. what’s up with Italy? stick outs like a sore thumb in almost every graph?
O BRASIL É O MELHOR PAÍS NOVAMENTE 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Unfortunately the USA might not remain blue much longer if the conservatives in SCOTUS get their way.
Punishing same-sex acts by death is crazy work
map is outdated, Lithuania has registered partnerships.
Here is a perspective from a Venezuelan.
It’s immensely frustrating whenever I read American leftists defend the dictatorship of our country simply because they claim to be socialists, and the US doesn’t like them. And part of the frustration is that they tend to be painted as the good guys who are poor victims of the US, when it couldn’t be further from the truth.
American leftists seem to be under the impression that the Venezuelan dictatorship is a progressive socialist government that only struggles because the US bullies them. When in reality, they are defending a totalitarian military oligarchy with conservative practices. And this chart illustrates that.
LGBT rights do not exist in Venezuela, and not only have Chavez and Maduro never made an attempt to improve that, but they also often used and still use homophobic remarks to attack their political opponents. This is not a progressive government. Leftist movements born from Guerrillas are not inherently an inclusive and benevolent group. And the mistreatment of the LGBT community in Venezuela is not something you can blame on the US sanctions, which is always the excuse used whenever we Venezuelans want to call out the violations of our dictators.
The Chavista movement has always been a populist military dictatorship whose tactics of hatred, corruption, and their speeches are more similar to Trump’s America than American leftists and conservatives want to admit or even care to look up.
Venezuela is not the little socialist country that tried but was bullied into failing, like foreign tankies claim, like Hasan Piker, and especially Alan Macleod, who has profited from being a Maduro propagandist.
I wonder what is going on at New Zeland, I took them for even better Australians, ¿isn’t it?
Last year the Czech Constitutional Court ruled that requiring surgery for the gender marker change is unconstitutional so the law has until the end of June this year to change, thankfully.
What’s the difference/meaning of second parent and individual adoption? Are they saying only singles can adopt?
yooo, my country mention 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 (help)
What the fuck is going on in the middle east? well over half of the arab men I know are gay, and that’s why I figured that arab nations allowed polygamy.
LGBT rights were drastically reduced in Russia in a few years. People could officially change gender in passport before the Ukrainian war and now you can be accused of a crime for wearing a rainbow pin
Wait, same sex marriage is banned in Japan? Don’t they have people marrying computer programs and anime “waifus” there? I am not judging anything, but the illegal one seems far less extreme to me.