Justifiability of homosexuality

Source
World Values Survey
Date
1995-1999
Regions Surveyed
51
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Full Survey Results

From 1995 to 1999, 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)
60.8%
13.2%
  1. 1. Sweden
    17.44%
    50.94%
  2. 15.95%
    47.43%
  3. 24.88%
    50.84%
  4. 21.7%
    44.55%
  5. 5. Norway
    33.81%
    40.37%
  6. 6. Spain
    28.65%
    31.13%
  7. 30.68%
    27.49%
  8. 31.56%
    26.81%
  9. 36.14%
    22.31%
  10. 40.09%
    21.58%
  11. 11. Finland
    45.59%
    26.34%
  12. 37.26%
    17.42%
  13. 13. Croatia
    50.59%
    19.4%
  14. 14. Uruguay
    51.6%
    19.9%
  15. 50.32%
    15.11%
  16. 57.99%
    21.35%
  17. 48.04%
    9.61%
  18. 18. Hungary
    53.23%
    13.54%
  19. 50.5%
    9.67%
  20. 20. Japan
    52.94%
    9.96%
  21. 21. Peru
    57.47%
    10.82%
  22. 22. Chile
    56.3%
    9.3%
  23. 23. Brazil
    63.95%
    12.6%
  24. 24. Latvia
    63.67%
    8.42%
  25. 25. Mexico
    66.03%
    8.01%
  26. 64.86%
    6.79%
  27. 27. Poland
    69.04%
    8.07%
  28. 67.43%
    6%
  29. 71.44%
    8.02%
  30. 30. Estonia
    68.07%
    4.21%
  31. 31. Belarus
    68.55%
    3.15%
  32. 32. Serbia
    70.78%
    4.61%
  33. 33. Ukraine
    70.08%
    2.74%
  34. 34. Romania
    75.22%
    5.57%
  35. 35. Russia
    75.1%
    2.75%
  36. 76.71%
    3.77%
  37. 37. Armenia
    77.55%
    4.35%
  38. 38. Moldova
    76.12%
    2.13%
  39. 76.25%
    2.08%
  40. 82.62%
    7.02%
  41. 80.38%
    3.84%
  42. 42. Albania
    79.28%
    1.3%
  43. 43. Taiwan
    80.64%
    2.56%
  44. 44. India
    80.29%
    2.01%
  45. 82.17%
    2.83%
  46. 84.33%
    4%
  47. 83.52%
    2.41%
  48. 48. China
    87.27%
    1.47%
  49. 49. Georgia
    87%
    1.2%
  50. 87.21%
    1.4%
  51. 51. Nigeria
    90.78%
    1.95%

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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