Justifiability of homosexuality

Source
World Values Survey
Date
2017-2022
Regions Surveyed
88
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Full Survey Results

From 2017 to 2022, the World Values Survey surveyed thousands of individuals in many countries about various topics. In this question, respondents were asked: "Please tell me for each of the following actions whether you think it can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between?" and were able to rate how justifiable they believe homosexuality is on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being "never justifiable" and 10 being "always justifiable"). Equaldex categorized a response of 1-3 as "not justifiable" and 8-10 as "justifiable." Respondents who selected 4-7 and those that did not answer are omitted from Equaldex's visualization of this data.

Question: "Please tell me for each of the following statements whether you think it can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between."

Not justifiable
Justifiable
Survey Average (Unweighted)
51.3%
22.8%
  1. 3.67%
    82.49%
  2. 5.76%
    82.55%
  3. 3. Sweden
    8.01%
    79.72%
  4. 4.96%
    75.1%
  5. 5. Norway
    9.53%
    75.6%
  6. 8.47%
    66.73%
  7. 7. Canada
    9.63%
    62.49%
  8. 13.17%
    64.41%
  9. 12.83%
    61.96%
  10. 12.76%
    60.89%
  11. 14.89%
    58.03%
  12. 12. Finland
    18.03%
    58.52%
  13. 15.8%
    54.3%
  14. 14. Spain
    16.2%
    52.73%
  15. 15. Austria
    17.14%
    52.15%
  16. 19.91%
    52.8%
  17. 17. France
    18.03%
    47.29%
  18. 18. Japan
    15.08%
    43.31%
  19. 19. Uruguay
    24%
    49.2%
  20. 20. Czechia
    20.37%
    43.12%
  21. 25.12%
    43.61%
  22. 22. Italy
    22.13%
    34.62%
  23. 21.64%
    25.62%
  24. 33.54%
    37%
  25. 32.87%
    34.63%
  26. 26. Vietnam
    22.75%
    24.08%
  27. 27. Macau
    26.3%
    20.82%
  28. 30.88%
    23.03%
  29. 29. Brazil
    33.14%
    25.03%
  30. 30. Chile
    28.5%
    20.1%
  31. 29.83%
    18.17%
  32. 34.39%
    19.82%
  33. 33. Greece
    38.33%
    21.08%
  34. 40.08%
    18.92%
  35. 35. Mexico
    42.79%
    19.41%
  36. 36. Taiwan
    41.21%
    17.09%
  37. 48.66%
    23.28%
  38. 50.53%
    22.47%
  39. 39. Poland
    52.43%
    21.72%
  40. 51.64%
    20.33%
  41. 41. Cyprus
    46.4%
    13%
  42. 42. Estonia
    50.23%
    15.8%
  43. 43. Hungary
    54.25%
    17.51%
  44. 44. Ecuador
    52.67%
    13.67%
  45. 53.95%
    14.89%
  46. 44.87%
    4.88%
  47. 47. Latvia
    57.87%
    12.89%
  48. 48. Bolivia
    54.52%
    9.53%
  49. 58.6%
    13.02%
  50. 56.05%
    9.98%
  51. 51. Croatia
    61.82%
    14.74%
  52. 61.17%
    12.83%
  53. 53. Iraq
    55.83%
    2.08%
  54. 54. Kenya
    65.17%
    10.43%
  55. 55. Serbia
    67.11%
    10.09%
  56. 56. Peru
    64.86%
    7.21%
  57. 61.37%
    3.05%
  58. 58. Ukraine
    62.36%
    3.1%
  59. 64.42%
    4.96%
  60. 65.84%
    4.28%
  61. 61. Morocco
    68%
    6.08%
  62. 62. Russia
    71.41%
    5.84%
  63. 63. Belarus
    73.51%
    6.85%
  64. 70.85%
    2.82%
  65. 65. Romania
    74.97%
    4.98%
  66. 78.62%
    6.71%
  67. 67. China
    80.4%
    6.75%
  68. 79.59%
    5.85%
  69. 69. Turkey
    78.1%
    2.82%
  70. 70. Albania
    82.05%
    6.05%
  71. 71. Lebanon
    79.17%
    2.67%
  72. 84.36%
    3.09%
  73. 87.95%
    5.48%
  74. 90.21%
    5.84%
  75. 75. Myanmar
    86%
    0.75%
  76. 87.25%
    1.92%
  77. 88.47%
    2.56%
  78. 78. Iran
    90.19%
    2.87%
  79. 88.55%
    0.44%
  80. 90.66%
    2.34%
  81. 89.42%
    0.08%
  82. 82. Georgia
    91.41%
    0.99%
  83. 83. Armenia
    92.88%
    1.54%
  84. 84. Libya
    92.14%
    0.75%
  85. 85. Nigeria
    94.26%
    2.02%
  86. 86. Tunisia
    93.96%
    0.75%
  87. 87. Jordan
    95.34%
    0.58%
  88. 96.25%
    1.44%

Regions are ranked by the percentage of "support" responses out of the total responses (excluding participants who answered "don't know" or refused to answer).

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