Justifiability of homosexuality

Source
World Values Survey
Date
2010-2014
Regions Surveyed
58
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Full Survey Results

From 2010 to 2014, 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)
61.9%
13.2%
  1. 1. Sweden
    10.7%
    69.24%
  2. 14.3%
    66.72%
  3. 3. Spain
    11.27%
    47.52%
  4. 18.08%
    51.25%
  5. 22.2%
    41%
  6. 25.8%
    36.27%
  7. 26.98%
    36.56%
  8. 8. Chile
    22.2%
    29.1%
  9. 26.99%
    28.35%
  10. 31%
    31.85%
  11. 11. Japan
    28.04%
    22.72%
  12. 38.82%
    33.3%
  13. 13. Taiwan
    34.73%
    19.22%
  14. 14. Brazil
    40.11%
    22.61%
  15. 44.08%
    20.83%
  16. 16. Mexico
    46.7%
    19.65%
  17. 44.92%
    17.13%
  18. 40.8%
    12.6%
  19. 19. Cyprus
    50%
    15.2%
  20. 20. Peru
    47.77%
    9.26%
  21. 21. Poland
    53.42%
    13.98%
  22. 22. Haiti
    55.76%
    10.37%
  23. 58.07%
    11.57%
  24. 24. Estonia
    55.97%
    8.94%
  25. 53.65%
    6.19%
  26. 58.17%
    6.58%
  27. 27. Lebanon
    65.25%
    7.17%
  28. 28. Yemen
    60.3%
    1.7%
  29. 64.67%
    5.33%
  30. 30. Ecuador
    65.22%
    5.74%
  31. 31. Russia
    65.12%
    4.12%
  32. 32. China
    68.09%
    3.57%
  33. 33. Algeria
    70.83%
    4.25%
  34. 34. Romania
    72.72%
    6.05%
  35. 35. Ukraine
    72.6%
    3.4%
  36. 36. Belarus
    73.55%
    3.45%
  37. 75.46%
    3.23%
  38. 38. Libya
    78.7%
    4.69%
  39. 78.07%
    3.33%
  40. 40. India
    80.48%
    1.96%
  41. 84.48%
    2.6%
  42. 42. Iraq
    83.58%
    1.25%
  43. 85.6%
    2.27%
  44. 85.79%
    1.27%
  45. 45. Nigeria
    87.66%
    2.39%
  46. 46. Turkey
    88.79%
    2.49%
  47. 87.4%
    0.5%
  48. 88.93%
    1.33%
  49. 49. Tunisia
    88.63%
    0.83%
  50. 50. Morocco
    89%
    0.67%
  51. 51. Qatar
    94.53%
    1.6%
  52. 93.58%
    0.25%
  53. 53. Jordan
    93.92%
    0.25%
  54. 54. Ghana
    95.49%
    1.55%
  55. 55. Georgia
    96.26%
  56. 96.91%
    0.3%
  57. 57. Armenia
    97.45%
    0.64%
  58. 58. Rwanda
    98.43%
    0.26%

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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