Die Niederlande waren 2001 das erste Land, das die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe legalisierte. Seitdem sind fast 40 weitere Länder diesem Beispiel gefolgt.
Sie können dies anhand der Tabelle sehen Daten von Pew Research. Bis 2025 war die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in 39 Ländern legal.
Im vergangenen Jahr kamen zwei Länder zur Gesamtzahl hinzu. Thailand war das erste Land in Südostasien, das die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe legalisierte, und auch in Liechtenstein trat ein Gesetz zur gleichgeschlechtlichen Ehe in Kraft.
Von ourworldindata
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Data source: Pew Research Center 2025
Tools used: The OWID-Grapher and Figma
That’s actually lower than I thought it was. There’s almost 200 countries depending on how you count. Looking at the map on the linked page shows that it’s mostly the Western Hemisphere and Europe. The divide between countries that have legalized it and those that haven’t is basically just two halves rather than something like a checker board.
Aren’t there like 191 countries or so?
How are we only in *almost* 40 legalized countries? God damn…
That’s pitiful. Imagine if it said, “Almost 40 countries have given women the right to vote”
Always shocked when I see that no other countries is SE Asia have same-sex marriage or even that Thailand took this long
I thought Taiwan was the first country to do so?
While we still have a long way to go, I still think it’s pretty impressive that this has happened in my lifetime.
I’m a Millennial and it seems crazy now that it *wasn’t* legalised in places like western Europe when I was born.
Isn’t a line graph technically the wrong way to show this?
So what, in late 2000 there were 0.5 countries with legal gay marriage?
This will likely peak and reverse as demographics deteriorate.
I think we did it in 2010. So far, no nazis riding dinosaurs.
This presentation isn’t remotely “beautiful”…
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jurisdictions criminalise private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity. The majority of these jurisdictions explicitly criminalise sex between men via ‘sodomy’, ‘buggery’ and ‘unnatural offences’ laws.
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countries criminalise private, consensual sexual activity between women using laws against ‘lesbianism’, ‘sexual relations with a person of the same sex’ and ‘gross indecency’. Even in jurisdictions that do not explicitly criminalise women, lesbians and bisexual women have been subjected to arrest or threat of arrest.
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countries have jurisdictions in which the death penalty is imposed or at least a possibility for private, consensual same-sex sexual activity. At least 6 of these implement the death penalty – Iran, Northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen – and the death penalty is a legal possibility in Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, UAE and Uganda.
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countries criminalise the gender identity and/or expression of transgender people, using so-called ‘cross-dressing’, ‘impersonation’ and ‘disguise’ laws. In many more countries transgender people are targeted by a range of laws that criminalise same-sex activity and vagrancy, hooliganism and public order offences.
Not included is the USA where hundreds of State laws have been passed to target and erase the identity of Transgender people. The UK is also pursuing an anti trans agenda and has dusted off a law introduced by the Thatcher government, Section 28, only removing the word homosexual and replacing it with Transgender. Whilst there was a vigorous campaign against Section 28, not a word has been said against this new Labour law.