Sexual orientation in the UK by region, sex, age, legal partnership status, and ethnic group. These are official statistics in development.

The United Kingdom was ranked 15th out of 48 European countries in Rainbow Europe's annual LGBTI rights ranking for 2024, with the country receiving a total score of ***** percent. The UK performs well for its LGBTI civil society, which is fully free to operate freely within the country, as well as for its family protections. At the other end, the UK performs poorly on intersex bodily integrity, for which it has few or no legal protections.

There were ****** sexual orientation hate crimes reported by the police in England and Wales in the 2024/25 reporting year, compared with ****** in the previous year.

In May 2025, approximately 77 percent of people in Great Britain supported the 2014 change in the law that allowed same-sex marriage, compared with 17 percent who opposed it, and nine percent who did not know if they supported or opposed it.

There were estimated to be approximately **** million people in the United Kingdom who identified as being Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual in 2023, compared with ******* in 2014.

In a global survey conducted in 2023, ***** percent of respondents declared to be homosexual, gay, or lesbian. In Brazil and the Netherlands, for instance, **** percent, instead, identified as bisexual, representing the largest group of bisexual respondents among the 30 surveyed countries. Moreover, *** percent of the interviewees in Switzerland said to be pansexual or omnisexual. Pansexuality describes people who feel attracted to other people regardless of their biological sex, gender, or gender identity, whereas omnisexuality refers to people attracted to people of all gender identities and sexual orientations.