What is the percentage of gay people in the world?

What percentage of people in the world are gay or lesbian? (Bi-curious people are not included)





Can you give me the best estimate with reliable stats or survey results?

What is the percentage of gay people in the world?
The average ratio from several studies are that 9.56% of men are homosexual and 4.75% of women are homosexual.





The Indiana University Kinsey Reports (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male - Kinsey, Pomeroy, and Martin/Sexual Behavior in the Human Female - Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, and Gerhard) reported 10% of males being more or less exclusively homosexual and 2% to 6% of females being more or less exclusively homosexual.





A 1990 study (Homosexuality/Heterosexuality by McWhirter, Sanders, and Reinisch) stated 13.95% of males and 4.25% of females had "extensive" or "more than incidental" homosexual experience.





A 1993 study (The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior - Janus and Janus) found 9% of men and 5% of women were involved in frequent or ongoing homosexual experiences.





A 1994 study (The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States - Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, Michaels) reported that the incidence rate of homosexual desire for men is 7.7% and 7.5% for women.





In 1995, a survey (The prevalence of homosexual behavior and attraction in the United States, the United Kingdom and France: Results of national population-based samples - Sell, Wells, and Wypij) reported 6.2, 4.5, and 10.7% of males and 3.6, 2.1, and 3.3% of females in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, respectively, report having had sexual contact with someone of the same sex in the previous 5 years.
Reply:χριστοφορος gave you some of the best information you will find anywhere. The "10%" standard figure has been around for years, but that is for gay men only. There aren't as many gay women as men, so when you combine the two, the result is closer to 7%.





However, in the 01 May 2008 issue of The Advocate magazine (a gay/lesbian publication), they reported a poll coming from Hunter College showing only 2.9% (NOTE: this was a poll, not rigid scientific inquiry).





So, to answer your question, it would be anywhere between 2.9% and 7%.
Reply:The 10% statistic was from the Kinsey Reports published in the 1940s and 50s, and probably an overestimation due to having a biased sample.





I'd believe a number between 1-5%.
Reply:It's commonly assumed to be aboout 10%.





Stats and surveys would be little help, as I'm sure a large percentage are not willing to reveal that information.
Reply:Most people will say about 10% but there is really no accurate statistic since that doesn't include all the people who aren't openly gay.
Reply:roughly ten per cent..check item 3 of this link





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Reply:not sure about the world but in the usa its between 2-3% closer to 2%
Reply:im told 10%

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