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. 2019 Dec 3;49(2):595–606. doi: 10.1007/s10508-019-01590-0

Table 3.

Sexual attraction and sexual identity (proportions) by nation

Country N Sexual attraction (categorical) Sexual identity
Predominantly not attracted to the same-sex Moderately attracted to the same-sex Predominantly attracted to the same-sex Straight Bisexual Gay/Lesbian
Australia 8003 0.74 0.19 0.07 0.90 0.06 0.04
Austria 398 0.67 0.26 0.07 0.88 0.09 0.03
Belgium 1322 0.78 0.16 0.05 0.91 0.06 0.04
Bulgaria 381 0.74 0.20 0.06 0.93 0.06 0.02
Canada 11673 0.75 0.19 0.07 0.90 0.06 0.04
Denmark 779 0.77 0.18 0.06 0.93 0.04 0.03
Finland 1628 0.71 0.22 0.07 0.86 0.11 0.03
France 965 0.74 0.17 0.09 0.87 0.07 0.06
Germany 1484 0.71 0.21 0.08 0.87 0.08 0.05
Greece 843 0.84 0.12 0.04 0.94 0.04 0.03
India 3193 0.89 0.08 0.03 0.93 0.06 0.01
Ireland 488 0.81 0.12 0.07 0.91 0.05 0.03
Italy 443 0.75 0.17 0.08 0.87 0.08 0.05
Japan 474 0.72 0.20 0.07 0.92 0.05 0.04
Malaysia 775 0.72 0.20 0.08 0.90 0.06 0.04
Netherlands 2108 0.70 0.19 0.10 0.85 0.07 0.08
New Zealand 1990 0.74 0.20 0.06 0.90 0.06 0.04
Norway 565 0.80 0.15 0.05 0.92 0.06 0.02
Philippines 407 0.69 0.20 0.11 0.86 0.07 0.07
Poland 441 0.70 0.21 0.09 0.91 0.06 0.03
Romania 359 0.81 0.14 0.05 0.94 0.04 0.03
Singapore 1748 0.72 0.22 0.06 0.90 0.06 0.04
Spain 817 0.73 0.19 0.08 0.91 0.04 0.06
Sweden 1232 0.79 0.16 0.05 0.92 0.06 0.02
Switzerland 557 0.80 0.14 0.06 0.91 0.06 0.03
Turkey 1294 0.80 0.14 0.06 0.96 0.03 0.01
UK 95793 0.78 0.15 0.06 0.91 0.05 0.04
USA 50928 0.73 0.18 0.08 0.88 0.07 0.05

For sexual attraction, the original score which is measured on a 7-point scale was transformed into 3 groups: “predominantly not sexually attracted to the same-sex” (scoring “1” and “2” on the same-sex attraction scales), “moderately sexually attracted to the same-sex” (scoring “3,” “4,” or “5” on the same-sex attraction scales), and “predominantly sexually attracted to the same-sex” (scoring “6” or “7” on the same-sex attraction scales)