Justifiability of homosexuality

Date
1981-1984
Regions Surveyed
11

Full Survey Results

From 1981 to 1984, 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)
66.1%
8.4%
  1. 1. Sweden
    43.61%
    24.63%
  2. 50.08%
    14.58%
  3. 3. Finland
    60.32%
    15.15%
  4. 4. Canada
    60.21%
    8.37%
  5. 5. Japan
    60.88%
    2.66%
  6. 64.98%
    3.48%
  7. 71.87%
    5.68%
  8. 71.99%
    5.08%
  9. 75.67%
    3.4%
  10. 10. Mexico
    81.76%
    8.33%
  11. 11. Hungary
    85.52%
    1.3%

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).

Submitted by danlev