N CN Continent Country 2017 S 2019: Legal Legal Legal

N CN CONTINENT COUNTRY 2017 S 2019
1 1 AFRICA Algeria ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
2 2 AFRICA Angola ILLEGAL LEGAL
3 3 AFRICA Benin LEGAL LEGAL
4 4 AFRICA Botswana ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
5 5 AFRICA Burkina Faso LEGAL LEGAL
6 6 AFRICA Burundi ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
7 7 AFRICA Cameroon ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
8 8 AFRICA Cape Verde LEGAL LEGAL
9 9 AFRICA Central African Republic LEGAL LEGAL
10 10 AFRICA Chad LEGAL ILLEGAL
11 11 AFRICA Comoros ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
12 12 AFRICA Congo LEGAL LEGAL
13 13 AFRICA Côte d'Ivoire LEGAL LEGAL
14 14 AFRICA Democratic Republic of Congo LEGAL LEGAL
15 15 AFRICA Djibouti LEGAL LEGAL
16 16 AFRICA Egypt DE FACTO ILLEGAL DE FACTO ILLEGAL
17 17 AFRICA Equatorial Guinea LEGAL LEGAL
18 18 AFRICA Eritrea ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
19 19 AFRICA Eswatini ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
20 20 AFRICA Ethiopia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
21 21 AFRICA Gabon LEGAL LEGAL
22 22 AFRICA Gambia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
23 23 AFRICA Ghana ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
24 24 AFRICA Guinea ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
25 25 AFRICA Guinea-Bissau LEGAL LEGAL
26 26 AFRICA Kenya ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
27 27 AFRICA Lesotho LEGAL LEGAL
28 28 AFRICA Liberia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
29 29 AFRICA Libya ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
30 30 AFRICA Madagascar LEGAL LEGAL
31 31 AFRICA Malawi ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
32 32 AFRICA Mali LEGAL LEGAL
33 33 AFRICA Mauritania ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
34 34 AFRICA Mauritius ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
35 35 AFRICA Morocco ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
36 36 AFRICA Mozambique LEGAL LEGAL
37 37 AFRICA Namibia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
38 38 AFRICA Niger LEGAL LEGAL
39 39 AFRICA Nigeria ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
40 40 AFRICA Rwanda LEGAL LEGAL
41 41 AFRICA São Tome & Principe LEGAL LEGAL

42 42 AFRICA Senegal ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
43 43 AFRICA Seychelles LEGAL LEGAL
44 44 AFRICA Sierra Leone ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
45 45 AFRICA Somalia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
46 46 AFRICA South Africa LEGAL LEGAL
47 47 AFRICA South Sudan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
48 48 AFRICA Sudan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
49 49 AFRICA Tanzania ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
50 50 AFRICA Togo ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
51 51 AFRICA Tunisia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
52 52 AFRICA Uganda ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
53 53 AFRICA Zambia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
54 54 AFRICA Zimbabwe ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
55 1 LAC Antigua and Barbuda ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
56 2 LAC Argentina LEGAL LEGAL
57 3 LAC Bahamas LEGAL LEGAL
58 4 LAC Barbados ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
59 5 LAC Belize LEGAL LEGAL
60 6 LAC Bolivia LEGAL LEGAL
61 7 LAC Brazil LEGAL LEGAL
62 8 LAC Costa Rica LEGAL LEGAL
63 9 LAC Chile LEGAL LEGAL
64 10 LAC Colombia LEGAL LEGAL
65 11 LAC Cuba LEGAL LEGAL
66 12 LAC Dominica ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
67 13 LAC Dominican Republic LEGAL LEGAL
68 14 LAC Ecuador LEGAL LEGAL
69 15 LAC El Salvador LEGAL LEGAL
70 16 LAC Grenada ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
71 17 LAC Guatemala LEGAL LEGAL
72 18 LAC Guyana ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
73 19 LAC Haiti LEGAL LEGAL
74 20 LAC Honduras LEGAL LEGAL
75 21 LAC Jamaica ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
76 22 LAC Mexico LEGAL LEGAL
77 23 LAC Nicaragua LEGAL LEGAL
78 24 LAC Panama LEGAL LEGAL
79 25 LAC Paraguay LEGAL LEGAL
80 26 LAC Peru LEGAL LEGAL
81 27 LAC St Kitts & Nevis ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
82 28 LAC St Lucia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
83 29 LAC St Vincent & the Grenadines ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

84 30 LAC Suriname LEGAL LEGAL
85 31 LAC Trinidad and Tobago ILLEGAL LEGAL
86 32 LAC Uruguay LEGAL LEGAL
87 33 LAC Venezuela LEGAL LEGAL
88 1 NA Canada LEGAL LEGAL
89 2 NA United States LEGAL LEGAL
90 1 ASIA Afghanistan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
91 2 ASIA Bahrain LEGAL LEGAL
92 3 ASIA Bangladesh ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
93 4 ASIA Bhutan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
94 5 ASIA Brunei Darussalam ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
95 6 ASIA Cambodia LEGAL LEGAL
96 7 ASIA China LEGAL LEGAL
97 8 ASIA East Timor LEGAL LEGAL
98 9 ASIA Palestine
99 10 ASIA India ILLEGAL LEGAL
100 11 ASIA Indonesia LEGAL LEGAL
101 12 ASIA Iraq ILLEGAL DE FACTO ILLEGAL
102 13 ASIA Iran ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
103 14 ASIA Israel LEGAL LEGAL
104 15 ASIA Japan LEGAL LEGAL
105 16 ASIA Jordan LEGAL LEGAL
106 17 ASIA Kazakhstan LEGAL LEGAL
107 18 ASIA Kuwait ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
108 19 ASIA Kyrgyzstan LEGAL LEGAL
109 20 ASIA Laos LEGAL LEGAL
110 21 ASIA Lebanon ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
111 22 ASIA Malaysia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
112 23 ASIA Maldives ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
113 24 ASIA Mongolia LEGAL LEGAL
114 25 ASIA Myanmar ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
115 26 ASIA Nepal LEGAL LEGAL
116 27 ASIA North Korea LEGAL LEGAL
117 28 ASIA Oman ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
118 29 ASIA Pakistan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
119 30 ASIA Philippines LEGAL LEGAL
120 31 ASIA Qatar ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
121 32 ASIA Saudi Arabia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
122 33 ASIA Singapore ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
123 34 ASIA South Korea LEGAL LEGAL
124 35 ASIA Sri Lanka ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
125 36 ASIA Syria ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

126 37 ASIA Taiwan
127 38 ASIA Tajikistan LEGAL LEGAL
128 39 ASIA Thailand LEGAL LEGAL
129 40 ASIA Turkmenistan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
130 41 ASIA Vietnam LEGAL LEGAL
131 42 ASIA United Arab Emirates ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
132 43 ASIA Uzbekistan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
133 44 ASIA Yemen ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
134 1 EUROPE Albania LEGAL LEGAL
135 2 EUROPE Andorra LEGAL LEGAL
136 3 EUROPE Armenia LEGAL LEGAL
137 4 EUROPE Austria LEGAL LEGAL
138 5 EUROPE Azerbaijan LEGAL LEGAL
139 6 EUROPE Belarus LEGAL LEGAL
140 7 EUROPE Belgium LEGAL LEGAL
141 8 EUROPE Bosnia and Herzegovina LEGAL LEGAL
142 9 EUROPE Bulgaria LEGAL LEGAL
143 10 EUROPE Croatia LEGAL LEGAL
144 11 EUROPE Cyprus LEGAL LEGAL
145 12 EUROPE Czech Republic LEGAL LEGAL
146 13 EUROPE Denmark LEGAL LEGAL
147 14 EUROPE Estonia LEGAL LEGAL
148 15 EUROPE Finland LEGAL LEGAL
149 16 EUROPE France LEGAL LEGAL
150 17 EUROPE Georgia LEGAL LEGAL
151 18 EUROPE Germany LEGAL LEGAL
152 19 EUROPE Greece LEGAL LEGAL
153 20 EUROPE Hungary LEGAL LEGAL
154 21 EUROPE Iceland LEGAL LEGAL
155 22 EUROPE Ireland LEGAL LEGAL
156 23 EUROPE Italy LEGAL LEGAL
157 24 EUROPE Kosovo

158 25 EUROPE Latvia LEGAL LEGAL
159 26 EUROPE Liechtenstein LEGAL LEGAL
160 27 EUROPE Lithuania LEGAL LEGAL
161 28 EUROPE Luxembourg LEGAL LEGAL
163 30 EUROPE Malta LEGAL LEGAL
164 31 EUROPE Moldova LEGAL LEGAL
165 32 EUROPE Monaco LEGAL LEGAL
166 33 EUROPE Montenegro LEGAL LEGAL
167 34 EUROPE Netherlands LEGAL LEGAL
162 29 EUROPE North Macedonia LEGAL LEGAL

168 35 EUROPE Norway LEGAL LEGAL
169 36 EUROPE Poland LEGAL LEGAL
170 37 EUROPE Portugal LEGAL LEGAL
171 38 EUROPE Romania LEGAL LEGAL
172 39 EUROPE Russia LEGAL LEGAL
173 40 EUROPE San Marino LEGAL LEGAL
174 41 EUROPE Serbia LEGAL LEGAL
175 42 EUROPE Slovakia LEGAL LEGAL
176 43 EUROPE Slovenia LEGAL LEGAL
177 44 EUROPE Spain LEGAL LEGAL
178 45 EUROPE Sweden LEGAL LEGAL
179 46 EUROPE Switzerland LEGAL LEGAL
180 47 EUROPE Turkey LEGAL LEGAL
181 48 EUROPE Ukraine LEGAL LEGAL
182 49 EUROPE United Kingdom LEGAL LEGAL
183 50 EUROPE Vatican City

184 1 OCEANIA Australia LEGAL LEGAL
185 2 OCEANIA Cook Islands

186 3 OCEANIA Fiji LEGAL LEGAL
187 4 OCEANIA Kiribati ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
188 5 OCEANIA Marshall Islands LEGAL LEGAL
189 6 OCEANIA Micronesia LEGAL LEGAL
190 7 OCEANIA New Zealand LEGAL LEGAL
191 8 OCEANIA Nauru LEGAL LEGAL
192 9 OCEANIA Palau LEGAL LEGAL
193 10 OCEANIA Papua New Guinea ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
194 11 OCEANIA Samoa ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
195 12 OCEANIA Solomon Islands ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
196 13 OCEANIA Tonga ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
197 14 OCEANIA Tuvalu ILLEGAL ILLEGAL
198 15 OCEANIA Vanuatu LEGAL LEGAL
World 2017 2019

198 States LEGAL 121 LEGAL
193 UN Member States ILLEGAL 71 ILLEGAL
5 Non-UN Member States DE FACTO ILLEGAL 1 DE FACTO ILLEGAL
AFRICA 2017 2019

54 UN Member States LEGAL 21 LEGAL
0 Non-UN Member States ILLEGAL 32 ILLEGAL
DE FACTO ILLEGAL 1 DE FACTO ILLEGAL

LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN 2017 2019

NORTH AMERICA 2017 2019

ASIA 2017 2019


EUROPE 2017 2019


OCEANIA 2017 2019


ILLEGAL
What happened between 2017 and
LEGAL
2019?
DE FACTO ILLEGAL T & Tobago
India
Angola
Chad
Iraq
S
Changed!
Changed!
Changed!
Changed!
Changed!
2019
123 64% of UN Member States
2019
21 Angola (from Illegal)
32 Chad (from legal)
1
2019
24 T&T (from Illegal)
9
0
2019
2
0
0
2019
20 India (from Illegal)
21
1 Iraq (from Illegal)
2019
48
0
0
2019
8
6
0
ed between 2017 and
Dec
Dec
Dec
Crim
DF Crim
CRIMINALISATION
CONSENSUAL
SAME-SEX GENDER MAX PENALTY
SEXUAL ACTS
Years in Prison /
N CN CONTINENT COUNTRY Legal? Gender/s
Other
1 1 AFRICA Algeria NO ANY GENDER 2
2 2 AFRICA Angola YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
3 3 AFRICA Benin YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
4 4 AFRICA Botswana NO ANY GENDER 7
5 5 AFRICA Burkina Faso YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
6 6 AFRICA Burundi NO ANY GENDER 2
7 7 AFRICA Cameroon NO ANY GENDER 5
8 8 AFRICA Cape Verde YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
9 9 AFRICA Central African Republic YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
10 10 AFRICA Chad NO ANY GENDER 2
11 11 AFRICA Comoros NO ANY GENDER 5
12 12 AFRICA Congo YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
13 13 AFRICA Côte d'Ivoire YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
14 14 AFRICA DRC YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
15 15 AFRICA Djibouti YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
16 16 AFRICA Egypt DE FACTO ANY GENDER UNDETERMINED
17 17 AFRICA Equatorial Guinea YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
18 18 AFRICA Eritrea NO ANY GENDER 7
19 19 AFRICA Eswatini NO MALE ONLY UNDETERMINED
20 20 AFRICA Ethiopia NO ANY GENDER 3
21 21 AFRICA Gabon YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
22 22 AFRICA Gambia NO ANY GENDER 14
23 23 AFRICA Ghana NO ANY GENDER 3

24 24 AFRICA Guinea NO ANY GENDER 3
25 25 AFRICA Guinea-Bissau YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
26 26 AFRICA Kenya NO MALE ONLY 14
27 27 AFRICA Lesotho YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
28 28 AFRICA Liberia NO ANY GENDER 1
29 29 AFRICA Libya NO ANY GENDER 5
30 30 AFRICA Madagascar YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
31 31 AFRICA Malawi NO ANY GENDER 14
32 32 AFRICA Mali YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
33 33 AFRICA Mauritania NO ANY GENDER DEATH (NOT)
34 34 AFRICA Mauritius NO MALE ONLY 5
35 35 AFRICA Morocco NO ANY GENDER 3
36 36 AFRICA Mozambique YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
37 37 AFRICA Namibia NO MALE ONLY UNDETERMINED
38 38 AFRICA Niger YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
39 39 AFRICA Nigeria NO ANY GENDER DEATH (REG)
40 40 AFRICA Rwanda YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
41 41 AFRICA São Tome & Principe YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
42 42 AFRICA Senegal NO ANY GENDER 5
43 43 AFRICA Seychelles YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
44 44 AFRICA Sierra Leone NO MALE ONLY 10
45 45 AFRICA Somalia NO ANY GENDER DEATH (REG)
46 46 AFRICA South Africa YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
47 47 AFRICA South Sudan NO ANY GENDER 10
48 48 AFRICA Sudan NO ANY GENDER DEATH
49 49 AFRICA Tanzania NO ANY GENDER FOR LIFE
50 50 AFRICA Togo NO MALE ONLY 3
51 51 AFRICA Tunisia NO ANY GENDER 3
52 52 AFRICA Uganda NO ANY GENDER FOR LIFE

53 53 AFRICA Zambia NO ANY GENDER FOR LIFE
54 54 AFRICA Zimbabwe NO MALE ONLY 1
55 1 LAC Antigua and Barbuda NO ANY GENDER 15
56 2 LAC Argentina YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
57 3 LAC Bahamas YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
58 4 LAC Barbados NO ANY GENDER FOR LIFE
59 5 LAC Belize YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
60 6 LAC Bolivia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
61 7 LAC Brazil YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
62 8 LAC Costa Rica YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
63 9 LAC Chile YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
64 10 LAC Colombia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
65 11 LAC Cuba YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
66 12 LAC Dominica NO ANY GENDER 10
67 13 LAC Dominican Republic YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
68 14 LAC Ecuador YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
69 15 LAC El Salvador YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
70 16 LAC Grenada NO MALE ONLY 10
71 17 LAC Guatemala YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
72 18 LAC Guyana NO MALE ONLY FOR LIFE
73 19 LAC Haiti YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
74 20 LAC Honduras YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
75 21 LAC Jamaica NO MALE ONLY 10
76 22 LAC Mexico YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
77 23 LAC Nicaragua YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
78 24 LAC Panama YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
79 25 LAC Paraguay YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
80 26 LAC Peru YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
81 27 LAC St Kitts & Nevis NO MALE ONLY 10

82 28 LAC St Lucia NO ANY GENDER 10
83 29 LAC St Vincent & the Grenadines NO ANY GENDER 10
84 30 LAC Suriname YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
85 31 LAC Trinidad and Tobago YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
86 32 LAC Uruguay YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
87 33 LAC Venezuela YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
88 1 NA Canada YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
89 2 NA United States YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
90 1 ASIA Afghanistan NO ANY GENDER DEATH (NOT)
91 2 ASIA Bahrain YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
92 3 ASIA Bangladesh NO MALE ONLY 10
93 4 ASIA Bhutan NO MALE ONLY 1
94 5 ASIA Brunei Darussalam NO MALE ONLY 10
95 6 ASIA Cambodia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
96 7 ASIA China YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
97 8 ASIA East Timor YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
ASIA Palestine (1) Y DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
98 9 ASIA India YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
99 10 ASIA Indonesia (2) YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
100 11 ASIA Iraq DE FACTO ANY GENDER UNDETERMINED
101 12 ASIA Iran NO ANY GENDER DEATH
102 13 ASIA Israel YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
103 14 ASIA Japan YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
104 15 ASIA Jordan YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
105 16 ASIA Kazakhstan YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
106 17 ASIA Kuwait NO MALE ONLY 7
107 18 ASIA Kyrgyzstan YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
108 19 ASIA Laos YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
109 20 ASIA Lebanon NO MALE ONLY 1

ASIA Macau Y DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
110 21 ASIA Malaysia NO ANY GENDER 20
111 22 ASIA Maldives NO ANY GENDER 8
112 23 ASIA Mongolia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
113 24 ASIA Myanmar NO MALE ONLY 10
114 25 ASIA Nepal YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
115 26 ASIA North Korea YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
116 27 ASIA Oman NO ANY GENDER 3
117 28 ASIA Pakistan NO MALE ONLY DEATH (NOT)
118 29 ASIA Philippines YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
119 30 ASIA Qatar NO ANY GENDER DEATH (NOT)
120 31 ASIA Saudi Arabia NO ANY GENDER DEATH
121 32 ASIA Singapore NO MALE ONLY 2
122 33 ASIA South Korea YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
123 34 ASIA Sri Lanka NO ANY GENDER 10
124 35 ASIA Syria NO ANY GENDER 3
ASIA Taiwan Y DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
125 36 ASIA Tajikistan YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
126 37 ASIA Thailand YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
127 38 ASIA Turkmenistan NO MALE ONLY 2
128 39 ASIA Vietnam YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
129 40 ASIA United Arab Emirates NO ANY GENDER DEATH (NOT)
130 41 ASIA Uzbekistan NO MALE ONLY 3
131 42 ASIA Yemen NO ANY GENDER DEATH
132 1 EUROPE Albania YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
133 2 EUROPE Andorra YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
134 3 EUROPE Armenia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
135 4 EUROPE Austria YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
136 5 EUROPE Azerbaijan YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
137 6 EUROPE Belarus YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
138 7 EUROPE Belgium YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
139 8 EUROPE Bosnia and Herzegovina YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
140 9 EUROPE Bulgaria YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
141 10 EUROPE Croatia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
142 11 EUROPE Cyprus YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
143 12 EUROPE Czechia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
144 13 EUROPE Denmark YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
145 14 EUROPE Estonia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
146 15 EUROPE Finland YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
147 16 EUROPE France YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
148 17 EUROPE Georgia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
149 18 EUROPE Germany YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
150 19 EUROPE Greece YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
151 20 EUROPE Hungary YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
152 21 EUROPE Iceland YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
153 22 EUROPE Ireland YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
154 23 EUROPE Italy YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
EUROPE Kosovo Y DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
155 24 EUROPE Latvia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
156 25 EUROPE Liechtenstein YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
157 26 EUROPE Lithuania YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
158 27 EUROPE Luxembourg YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
159 28 EUROPE Malta YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
160 29 EUROPE Moldova YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
161 30 EUROPE Monaco YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
162 31 EUROPE Montenegro YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
163 32 EUROPE Netherlands YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
164 33 EUROPE North Macedonia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
165 34 EUROPE Norway YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
166 35 EUROPE Poland YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
167 36 EUROPE Portugal YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
168 37 EUROPE Romania YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
169 38 EUROPE Russia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
170 39 EUROPE San Marino YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
171 40 EUROPE Serbia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
172 41 EUROPE Slovakia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
173 42 EUROPE Slovenia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
174 43 EUROPE Spain YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
175 44 EUROPE Sweden YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
176 45 EUROPE Switzerland YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
177 46 EUROPE Turkey YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
178 47 EUROPE Ukraine YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
179 48 EUROPE United Kingdom YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
EUROPE Vatican City Y DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
180 1 OCEANIA Australia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
OCEANIA Cook Islands N M ONLY 5
181 2 OCEANIA Fiji YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
182 3 OCEANIA Kiribati NO MALE ONLY 14
183 4 OCEANIA Marshall Islands YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
184 5 OCEANIA Micronesia YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
185 6 OCEANIA New Zealand YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
186 7 OCEANIA Nauru YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
187 8 OCEANIA Palau YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
188 9 OCEANIA Papua New Guinea NO MALE ONLY 7
189 10 OCEANIA Samoa NO MALE ONLY 7
190 11 OCEANIA Solomon Islands NO ANY GENDER 14
191 12 OCEANIA Tonga NO MALE ONLY 10

192 13 OCEANIA Tuvalu NO MALE ONLY 14
193 14 OCEANIA Vanuatu YES DOES NOT APPLY DOES NOT APPLY
YES (1). In Palestine, Gaza still criminalises same-sex

intimacy
NO
(2). In Indonesia, several provinces criminalise
consensal same-sex sexual acts.
44
26
68 35% UN Member States C
2 1% UN Member States D
123 64% UN Member States D

PROTECTION RECOGNIT
CRIMINALISATION OF SAME SEX

PROTECTION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION CTs
VIOLENCE/DISCRIMINATION MARRIAGE
Incitement to
Broad Hate Crime /
Constitutional Employment Hatred / Ban on CTs Marriage
Protections Aggr. Circs.
Violence
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
NO YES YES YES YES NO NO
NO NO YES NO NO NO NO
NO NO YES YES NO NO NO
NO YES YES NO NO NO NO
NO NO NO YES NO NO NO
YES YES YES NO YES NO YES
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9 52 73 42 40 3 26
5% 27% 38% 22% 21% 2% 13%
UN Member States UN Member States UN Member States UN Member States UN Member States UN Member States UN Member States
Criminalise all same-sex sexual acts
Criminalise same-sex sexual acts between MEN only
UN Member States CRIMINALISE consensual same-sex sexual acts
UN Member States DE FACTO CRIMINALISE consensual same-sex sexual acts
UN Member States DO NOT criminalise consensual same-sex sexual acts

RECOGNITION
SECOND
JOINT
CIVIL UNIONS PARENT
ADOPTION
ADOPTION
Second Parent
Civil Unions Joint Adoption
Adoption
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N CN CONTINENT COUNTRY 2017 S 2019

1 1 AFRICA Algeria ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

2 2 AFRICA Angola ILLEGAL LEGAL

3 3 AFRICA Benin LEGAL LEGAL

4 4 AFRICA Botswana ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

5 5 AFRICA Burkina Faso LEGAL LEGAL

6 6 AFRICA Burundi ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

7 7 AFRICA Cameroon ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

8 8 AFRICA Cape Verde LEGAL LEGAL

9 9 AFRICA Central African Republic LEGAL LEGAL

10 10 AFRICA Chad LEGAL ILLEGAL

11 11 AFRICA Comoros ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

12 12 AFRICA Congo LEGAL LEGAL

13 13 AFRICA Côte d'Ivoire LEGAL LEGAL

14 14 AFRICA Democratic Republic of Congo LEGAL LEGAL

15 15 AFRICA Djibouti LEGAL LEGAL

16 16 AFRICA Egypt DE FACTO ILLEGAL DE FACTO ILLEGAL

17 17 AFRICA Equatorial Guinea LEGAL LEGAL

18 18 AFRICA Eritrea ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

19 19 AFRICA Eswatini ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

20 20 AFRICA Ethiopia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

21 21 AFRICA Gabon LEGAL LEGAL

22 22 AFRICA Gambia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

23 23 AFRICA Ghana ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

24 24 AFRICA Guinea ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

25 25 AFRICA Guinea-Bissau LEGAL LEGAL

26 26 AFRICA Kenya ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

27 27 AFRICA Lesotho LEGAL LEGAL

28 28 AFRICA Liberia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

29 29 AFRICA Libya ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

30 30 AFRICA Madagascar LEGAL LEGAL

31 31 AFRICA Malawi ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

32 32 AFRICA Mali LEGAL LEGAL

33 33 AFRICA Mauritania ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

34 34 AFRICA Mauritius ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

35 35 AFRICA Morocco ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

36 36 AFRICA Mozambique LEGAL LEGAL

37 37 AFRICA Namibia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

38 38 AFRICA Niger LEGAL LEGAL

39 39 AFRICA Nigeria ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

40 40 AFRICA Rwanda LEGAL LEGAL

41 41 AFRICA São Tome & Principe LEGAL LEGAL

43 43 AFRICA Seychelles LEGAL LEGAL

44 44 AFRICA Sierra Leone ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

45 45 AFRICA Somalia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

46 46 AFRICA South Africa LEGAL LEGAL

47 47 AFRICA South Sudan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

48 48 AFRICA Sudan ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

49 49 AFRICA Tanzania ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

50 50 AFRICA Togo ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

51 51 AFRICA Tunisia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

52 52 AFRICA Uganda ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

53 53 AFRICA Zambia ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

54 54 AFRICA Zimbabwe ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

55 1 LAC Antigua and Barbuda ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

56 2 LAC Argentina LEGAL LEGAL

57 3 LAC Bahamas LEGAL LEGAL

58 4 LAC Barbados ILLEGAL ILLEGAL

59 5 LAC Belize LEGAL LEGAL

60 6 LAC Bolivia LEGAL LEGAL

61 7 LAC Brazil LEGAL LEGAL

62 8 LAC Costa Rica LEGAL LEGAL