International Survey Finds Mixed Support for Same-Sex Marriage
Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain have some of the world’s highest approval rates for same-sex marriage, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center.
Western Europeans lead the world with their staunch support for same-sex marriage, according to a Pew Research Center survey published this week. The survey reported vast differences in levels of support – from Nigeria, where only 2% of adults support same-sex marriage, to Sweden where 92% favor the practice.
Pew – a nonpartisan research group that conducts public opinion polling – surveyed adults in 24 countries across four regions and broke down its findings by several factors, including geography, age, gender, political ideology, religion and legalization.
In the United States where same-sex marriage was legalized nationally in 2015, 63% of Americans support it and 34% oppose it.
Pew found that liberals in the U.S. are much more supportive of same-sex marriage than conservatives by a margin of 54 percentage points – the largest ideological gap across the surveyed countries. Americans under the age of 40 were also more likely to be in support (73% vs. 57%) and women were slightly more supportive than men (65% vs. 60%).
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Legalization of same-sex marriage is also rare in the Middle East and Africa, where South Africa was the only country surveyed by Pew to have codified the practice. Even still, only 38% of respondents in South Africa supported same-sex marriage. Support was similarly low in Israel (36%), Kenya (9%) and Nigeria (2%).
Think I will move to Nigeria.
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