Quoting the accompanying text from Our World in Data:

The first nationwide law allowing same-sex couples to marry was passed in the Netherlands in 2001. Amsterdam’s mayor, Job Cohen, officiated the first couples. Twenty-five years on, these rights to same-sex marriage now cover 1.5 billion people worldwide.

These people live in 39 countries with marriage equality, mainly across Western Europe and the Americas.

This change in marriage laws has made a huge difference to the lives of many. But they are still in the minority globally. Four in five people still live in countries where same-sex couples are not equal under the law.

Explore which countries have legalized same-sex marriage →

Posted by cgiattino

4 comments

  1. Lucky bitchez. It’s much higher if you count countries like China with limited recognition of the same sex partnerships.

    Meanwhile in Turkey, I made the state acknowledge that I’m in a relationship with a gay man as they were looking for proof that I’m gay so I can get exempted from military service. We’re still together. Yay recognition.

  2. It is still a massive win for freedom and tolerance. Progress has been slow, and is not irreversible, but we’ve come further in the past quarter century than in the millenia preceding it.

  3. I don’t feel Vietnam, Turkiye, and Japan are really scary though, just because same-sex marriages are “banned” there

  4. Well, less than one in five people are homosexual, so we’re all good.

    *Taps forehead*

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