As of 2005, people in the United States stated that they have had an average of 10.7 sexual partners, which is slightly above the global average of nine sexual partners.

Turkey in the lead?

Surveys on sensitive or very personal topics, like sexuality, are often to be taken with a grain of salt, but in this case, Turkey did not only lead the ranking in 2005, it also topped the one conducted in 2010 on the mean number of sexual partners. So is it likely that the Turkish people are sexually more prolific than everybody else? Another survey by another source suggests otherwise: It does not include Turkey when it comes to the countries with the most sexually active inhabitants but lists the Greek as the most active ones. In general, people tend to embellish their own activities, but also those of others – the disparity between the perceived and the actual number of times people have sex is staggering and similar everywhere around the world.

India the most monogamous?

Of those countries surveyed, Indian respondents report the lowest average number of sexual partners, only slightly surpassed by China. Both China and India struggle with a significant difference between the number of men and the number of women, and both countries largely adhere to conservative standards of sexuality that prohibit sex before marriage.

On average, adult Britons report to have had four sexual partners during their lifetime. Out of the 61 percent willing to answer a survey, adults between the ages of 40 and 59 had a median of six partners, the highest for all age groups. Adults between 18 and 29 years of age reported the lowest median, with only one partner.

On average, adult Britons report to have had four sexual partners during their lifetime. Out of the 61 percent willing to answer a survey, the men reported to have had a median of five partners, while women reported to have had three.

This statistic shows the mean number of sexual partners in selected European countries in 2010. The survey was conducted among 15 to 20 year-olds and is part of the Face of Global sex Report by Durex. According to the source, the respondents in Turkey had 5.3 sex partners on average.

This statistic shows the number of sex partners in 2017, by gender. When the Dutch respondents were asked how many sex partners they have had, roughly 25 percent of the women indicated that they had had three to five sex partners in their life. On the other hand, eight percent of the men indicated that they have had 21 or more sex partners.

This statistic displays the share of the Spanish population that responded to a survey conducted in 2018 on the average number of sexual partners they had. The majority of the surveyed people responded that they had an average of one to three sexual partners in their lifetime. In contrast, 12 percent of the respondents reported having over 20 sexual partners in their lifetimes. In Spain, around 33 percent of the surveyed population admitted to having cheated on their partners.

Attitude to sexuality. AIDS and sexual conduct.

Topics: 1. Oral part of survey: global value system (Giessen test) and attitude to sexuality; altruism; sense of responsibility; success orientation; need for harmony; meaning of life; ideas about tasks and value of the family (scale); preferred form of life; responsibility for housekeeping; religiousness; age structure of members of household.

1. Written survey: year of marriage; firm partner relation; length of partnership; living together with a partner; reasons for partner change; self-perception and characterization of personal feelings in comparison with other persons for the areas partnership, love, openness, self-confidence, trust in others and dealing with money (scale); sex education authorities and age at sex education; sex education authority desired today; attitude to sexuality, love, sexual practices and partnership (scale); orientation to one´s own sex during puberty or in youth; age and sex of first sexual partner; classification of first sexual intercourse as positive or negative experience; contraceptives used; attitude to masturbation and frequency of masturbation; current heterosexual or homosexual orientation; totals of sexual partners up to now and number of sexual partners in the last 12 months; coooperation of sexual partner with one´s own sexual needs; time of last sexual intercourse and average frequency; frequency of selected sexual practices and use of condoms (scale); sexual practices with use of condoms to protect against AIDS; condom use with new acquaintances; use of condoms before AIDS became known; interference of condom; influence of AIDS on the feeling of pleasure in sexuality; sex without love; frequency of affairs; informing partner about the affair; concurrent maintenance of sexual relations with several partners without knowledge of this by the partners; frequency of sexual intercourse with fleeting acquaintances; assumptions about the faithfulness or unfaithfulness of partner; frequency of practicing group sex and exchange of partners; known or unknown persons in exchange of partners and group sex; changed sex life due to AIDS; information on areas in which sexual conduct has changed; personal AIDS test; AIDS test together with partner; AIDS test with desire for children; knowledge about possibilities of communicating AIDS (scale); self-assessment of extent to which informed about AIDS and areas about which one would like to know more; contacts with prostitutes in the last 5 years or in the last 12 months.

The following questions were also posed to respondents who had contacts with prostitutes: reasons for contact with prostitutes (scale); insistence of the prostitutes on use of a condom.

The following questions were also posed to men or women with homosexual contacts: living together with persons of the same sex as if married and duration of this relation; reasons for change of partner; totals of sexual partners of same sex up to now and number of partners in the last 12 months; cooperation of partner with one´s own sexual needs; last homosexual sexual intercourse and average frequency; frequency of selected sexual practices.

The following questions were posed only to homosexual men: sexual practices only conducted with condoms; condom use with new partnerships and use of condoms before AIDS became known; interference in use of condom; sexual contact with male prostitutes in the last 12 months or the last five years; frequency of these contacts; influence of AIDS on sexual conduct; frequency of use of dark rooms and homosexual saunas; pick-up sex; belonging to the leather scene; membership in a motorcycle club.

The following question was also posed to women: sexual intercourse during menstruation.

Also encoded was: weekday of interview; length of interview; start of interview; sex of the interviewer.

Interviewer rating: reliability of respondent.

This statistic displays the average number of sex partners in Flanders (Belgium) in 2017, by gender. Respondents participating in this survey were asked how many sex partners they have had. On average, the Flemish respondents had had 5.7 sex partners in their lives. That number was considerably higher for men than for women.

Attitude to sexuality. AIDS and sexual conduct.

Topics: 1. Oral part of survey: importance of various aspects for a fulfilled life; ideas about values and tasks of the family; recommendation of a form of life for an 18-year-old young person; responsibility for housekeeping; religiousness; age structure of members of household.

1. Written survey: year of marriage; firm partner relation; length of partnership; living together with a partner; reasons for partner change; self-perception and characterization of personal feelings in comparison with other persons for the areas partnership, love, openness, self-confidence, trust in others and dealing with money (scale); sex education authorities and age at sex education; sex education authority desired today; attitude to sexuality, love, sexual practices and partnership (scale); orientation to one´s own gender during puberty or in youth; age and sex of first sex partner; classification of first sexual intercourse as positive or negative experience; contraceptives used; attitude to masturbation and frequency of masturbation; current heterosexual or homosexual orientation; totals of sexual partners up to now and number of sexual partners in the last 12 months; cooperation of sexual partner with one´s own sexual needs; time of last sexual intercourse and average frequency; frequency of selected sexual practices and use of condoms (scale); sexual practices with use of condom to protect against AIDS; condom use with new aquaintances; use of condoms before AIDS became known; interference of condom; influence of AIDS on the feeling of pleasure in sexuality; love and sex; frequency of affairs; informing partner about the affair; concurrent maintenance of sexual relations with several partners without knowledge of this by the partners; frequency of sexual intercourse with fleeting aquaintances; assumptions about the faithfulness of unfaithfulness of partner; frequency of practicing group sex and exchange of partners; known or unknown persons in exchange of partners and group sex; changed sexual life due to AIDS; information on areas in which sexual conduct has changed; personal AIDS test; AIDS test together with partner; AIDS test with desire for children; knowledge about possibilities of communicating AIDS (scale); self-assessment of extent to which informed about AIDS and areas about which one would like to know more; contacts with prostitutes in the last 5 years or in the last 12 months.

The following questions were also posed to respondents who had contacts with prostitutes: reasons for contact with prostitutes (scale); use of condoms on initiative of prostitute.

The following questions were also posed to men or women with homosexual contacts: living together with persons of the same sex as if married and duration of this relation; reasons for change of homosexual partner; totals of sexual partners of same sex up to now and number of partners in the last 12 months; cooperation of partner in one´s own sexual needs; last homosexual sexual intercourse and average frequency; frequency of sexual practices used.

The following questions were posed only to homosexual men: sexual practices only conducted with condoms; condom use with new partnerships and use of condoms before AIDS became known; interference in use of condom; sexual contact with male prostitutes in the last 12 months or last five years; frequency of these contacts; influence of AIDS on sexual conduct; frequency of use of dark rooms and homosexual saunas; pick-up sex; belonging to the leather scene; membership in a motorcycle club.

The following question was also posed to women: sexual intercourse during menstruation.

Also encoded was: weekday of interview; length of interview; start of interview; sex of interviewer.

Interviewer rating: reliability of respondent.

Korea Contraceptive Prevalence: Modern Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data was reported at 70.100 % in 2009. This records a decrease from the previous number of 71.600 % for 2006. Korea Contraceptive Prevalence: Modern Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data is updated yearly, averaging 63.100 % from Dec 1965 (Median) to 2009, with 16 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 71.600 % in 2006 and a record low of 14.000 % in 1965. Korea Contraceptive Prevalence: Modern Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Korea – Table KR.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Contraceptive prevalence rate is the percentage of women who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, at least one modern method of contraception. It is usually measured for women ages 15-49 who are married or in union. Modern methods of contraception include female and male sterilization, oral hormonal pills, the intra-uterine device (IUD), the male condom, injectables, the implant (including Norplant), vaginal barrier methods, the female condom and emergency contraception.; ; Household surveys, including Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. Largely compiled by United Nations Population Division.; Weighted average;

How many sex partners have the average Dane had? In a survey from 2018, 24 percent of Danes stated to have had sex with five to nine different partners from the opposite sex. In comparison, 14 percent of the male respondents and 11 percent of the female respondents stated to have had between 20 and 49 sex partners. Furthermore, a total of 12 percent of the sexually active Danes had only had one sex partner in their life time.

Dataset from Novakova et al., submitted. Main aim: to investigate the effect of attractiveness priming on altruism.Data in csv format, comma as separator. Suitable for R.Columns:First column - row numbersID - participant ID, randomly assigned from a batch of numbers for each sessionSex - participant sex (0 female, 1 male)DG_control - control question assessing whether participant correctly understood rules of the Dictator Game (correct answer: "získá zbylých 100 žetonů")DG_given - number of tokens given to another player in the DG (0-400 tokens)UG_control - control question assessing whether participant correctly understood rules of the Ultimatum Game (correct answer: "pokud nabídku přijme, dostane 100 žetonů a Hráč 1 si ponechá 300 žetonů; pokud odmítne, ani jeden nedostane nic")UG_offer - offer made in the UG (0-400 tokens)UG_120offer - would the player accept a hypothetical offer of 120 out of 400 tokens from another player (0 reject, 1 accept)UG_MAO - minimum acceptable offer in the UG (0-400 tokens)DG_UG_knowledge - any previous knowledge of the games (0 no, 1 yes)DG_UG_knowledge_where - source of any previous knowledge of the games (text)age - participant agefamily_situation - participant's satisfaction with their family situation (ordinal; very bad 0 - very good 5)economic_situation - participant's satisfaction with their economic situation (ordinal; very bad 0 - very good 5)own.face_attractive - participant's assessment of the attractiveness of their face relatively to other members of their sex (ordinal; 0 very unattractive - 5 very attractive)own.body_attractive - participant's assessment of the attractiveness of their body relatively to other members of their sex (ordinal; 0 very unattractive - 5 very attractive)own.behav_attractive - participant's assessment of the attractiveness of their behavior (personality) relatively to other members of their sex (ordinal; 0 very unattractive - 5 very attractive)Self.perceived.attractiveness - sum of values from the previous three variablesromantic.part_life - number of romantic partners in the participant's life so farsexual.part_life - number of sexual partners in the participant's life so farromantic.part_year - number of romantic partners of the participant in the previous yearsexual.part_year - number of sexual partners of the participant in the previous yearextrov - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as extraverted, enthusiastic (ordinal; 1 strongly disagree, 7 strongly agree)critic_reversed - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as critical, quarrelsome (ordinal; 7 strongly disagree, 1 strongly agree)depend - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as dependable, self-disciplined (ordinal; 1 strongly disagree, 7 strongly agree)anxio_reversed - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as anxious, easily upset (ordinal; 7 strongly disagree, 1 strongly agree)open - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as open to new experiences, complex (ordinal; 1 strongly disagree, 7 strongly agree)reserved_reversed - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as reserved, quiet (ordinal; 7 strongly disagree, 1 strongly agree)sympat - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as sympathetic, warm (ordinal; 1 strongly disagree, 7 strongly agree)disorg_reversed - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as disorganized, careless (ordinal; 7 strongly disagree, 1 strongly agree)calm - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as calm, emotionally stable (ordinal; 1 strongly disagree, 7 strongly agree)convent_reversed - question from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory: I see myself as conventional, uncreative (ordinal; 7 strongly disagree, 1 strongly agree)Extraversion - extraversion measure from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, computed as average of extrov and reserved_reversedAgreeableness - agreeableness measure from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, computed as average of sympat and critic_reversedConscientiousness - conscientiousness measure from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, computed as average of depend and disorg_reversedNeuroticism - neuroticism measure from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, computed as average of calm and anxio_reversedOpenness - openness measure from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, computed as average of open and convent_reversedorder_attractiveness - order of appearance of attractive or unattractive images shown to the participant (randomly selected by Qualtrics)priming - type of priming (0 by unattractive images, 1 by attractive images)altruism_score - scale measure of altruism (sum of z-scores of DG_given and UG_offer)Collection methodology (from Novakova et al., submitted):Subjects and course of the experimentThe data was collected at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, in June and July 2018 and 2019. Participants were invited via online recruitment on Facebook, with a maximum of 18 participants invited for each session, and took part in several tasks for a set of studies. Each session consisted of either men, or women only. Only self-reported heterosexuals were recruited for the study in order to clearly discern relationships between the measured variables on a sample of the target size. In total, 158 people participated in the experiments (74 men, 84 women, mean age=21, median of age=21).Participants were greeted at the reception and led to the computer lab with seats separated by cardboard screens, so that the subjects could not see each other or otherwise interact during the experiment. They read and signed their informed consent and were able to ask questions about it before the commencement of the experiments. At the beginning of the computer-based survey, participants viewed twenty neutral-expression frontal portrait color photos of people of the opposite sex. The priming part of the session was always overseen by an experimenter of the same sex as the subjects.The subjects were asked to rate the attractiveness of the faces on an 8-point Liekert scale. One half of the subjects was randomly allocated photos rated as less attractive on the same Liekert scale by an independent sample in a previous online questionnaire (Machová 2018), the other half was shown the twenty faces rated as more attractive. The unattractive sample of men was originally rated 2.73 on average, the attractive 3.97 (t=7.98, df=37.67, p

This statistic depicts the results of a survey about the number of sexual partners had over the whole life in Italy in 2019, by gender. According to data, the majority of male respondents (25.3 percent) affirmed to have had more than ten sexual partners, whereas the percentage of female individuals which had more then ten sex partners amounted to 8.6 percent. The largest group of women (39.6 percent) stated to have had in their whole life one sexual partner.

United States US: Contraceptive Prevalence: Any Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data was reported at 72.700 % in 2014. This records a decrease from the previous number of 74.100 % for 2012. United States US: Contraceptive Prevalence: Any Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data is updated yearly, averaging 72.800 % from Dec 1965 (Median) to 2014, with 15 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 79.000 % in 1975 and a record low of 66.500 % in 1965. United States US: Contraceptive Prevalence: Any Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Contraceptive prevalence rate is the percentage of women who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, any form of contraception. It is usually measured for women ages 15-49 who are married or in union.; ; UNICEF's State of the World's Children and Childinfo, United Nations Population Division's World Contraceptive Use, household surveys including Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys.; Weighted average; Contraceptive prevalence amongst women of reproductive age is an indicator of women's empowerment and is related to maternal health, HIV/AIDS, and gender equality.

United Kingdom UK: Contraceptive Prevalence: Any Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data was reported at 84.000 % in 2009. This records an increase from the previous number of 82.000 % for 2008. United Kingdom UK: Contraceptive Prevalence: Any Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data is updated yearly, averaging 82.000 % from Dec 1976 (Median) to 2009, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 84.000 % in 2009 and a record low of 69.000 % in 1989. United Kingdom UK: Contraceptive Prevalence: Any Methods: % of Women Aged 15-49 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Contraceptive prevalence rate is the percentage of women who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, any form of contraception. It is usually measured for women ages 15-49 who are married or in union.; ; UNICEF's State of the World's Children and Childinfo, United Nations Population Division's World Contraceptive Use, household surveys including Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys.; Weighted average; Contraceptive prevalence amongst women of reproductive age is an indicator of women's empowerment and is related to maternal health, HIV/AIDS, and gender equality.

This statistic presents the number of sexual partners of respondents aged 40 to 70 years, from the United Kingdom (UK) as of January 2017. The largest share of respondents, at 39 percent stated that they had had between two and five sexual partners in their life.

Factors associated with awareness and willingness to use PrEP among the respondents.

Bivariate relationships between ego, alter, dyad, and network characteristics and relationship influence on PrEP and HIV prevention decision-making among participants recruited from the social networks of women who have experienced incarceration in the Southeastern US, 2020.

Awareness and willingness to use PrEP among PWIDs (N = 260).

This statistic shows the distribution of young French people aged between 15 to 24 years old in 2023, according to the number of sexual partners they had over the last twelve months. It reveals that a large part of respondents, 43 percent of them, declared that they did not have any sexual partner in the last 12 months.