LGBTIQ+ Global Acceptance Index(GAI) 2021
Matthew Kusen
2/22/2022
Global Acceptance Index (GAI)
Social attitudes can heavily influence whether LGBT people are accepted or rejected by employers, family members, teachers, clergy, and society as a whole. The Global Acceptance Index (GAI) uses data from more than 2,750 surveys conducted over 30 years to measure changing levels of acceptance toward LGBT people and issues in 175 countries. The GAI provides each nation with a score of 0 to 10 to indicate their level of acceptance.
Source of Data:
## Flores AR (2021). "Social acceptance of LGBT people in 174 countries:
## 1981 to 2021." The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law.Pre-processing data
Summary Data: Top 15 and Bottom 15
## # A tibble: 15 × 3
## type_2021 country `2017_2020`
## <chr> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 top_15 Iceland 9.78
## 2 top_15 Netherlands 9.46
## 3 top_15 Norway 9.38
## 4 top_15 Sweden 9.18
## 5 top_15 Canada 9.02
## 6 top_15 Spain 8.77
## 7 top_15 Denmark 8.69
## 8 top_15 Ireland 8.41
## 9 top_15 UK 8.34
## 10 top_15 New Zealand 8.23
## 11 top_15 Australia 8.03
## 12 top_15 Malta 8.01
## 13 top_15 Switzerland 8
## 14 top_15 Finland 7.96
## 15 top_15 Belgium 7.95## # A tibble: 15 × 3
## type_2021 country `2017_2020`
## <chr> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 bottom_15 Azerbaijan 1.42
## 2 bottom_15 Tajikistan 1.56
## 3 bottom_15 Zimbabwe 1.57
## 4 bottom_15 Somaliland 1.59
## 5 bottom_15 Ethiopia 1.63
## 6 bottom_15 Malawi 1.75
## 7 bottom_15 Mauritania 1.77
## 8 bottom_15 Senegal 1.85
## 9 bottom_15 Jordan 1.87
## 10 bottom_15 Moldova 1.91
## 11 bottom_15 Zambia 2.04
## 12 bottom_15 Iran 2.11
## 13 bottom_15 Kyrgyzstan 2.16
## 14 bottom_15 Armenia 2.17
## 15 bottom_15 Nigeria 2.18Geospatial Visualizations
Visualization 1: GAI Score by Country, 2017-2021 period
Visualization 2: Change in GAI Score by Country: 2000 - 2021
Visualization 3: Top 15 and Bottom 15 GAI scores, 2017-2021 period
Table: Top 15 and Bottom 15 GAI scores, 2017-2021 period