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Equaldex

Equaldex is an online publication resource on LGBTQ rights.[1][2][3] Subsections of the website are a collaborative knowledge base.[4][5][6] Equaldex publishes a ranking of LGBTQ rights by country and territory.[7] As of September 2022, the head of Equaldex is Dan Leveille.[8]

LGBTQ Equality Index

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The Legal Index is determined on the basis of 13 different legal issues, such as the legal status of homosexuality, the possibility of same-sex marriage, the fullness of the rights of transgender people, and so on. These issues have different weights. For example, the legality of same-sex marriage has a greater impact on the index than the ability of LGBTQ people to openly serve in the military. If different laws apply in different regions of the country, then the average value is calculated. Laws begin to affect the index only after they come into force, and not immediately after adoption, so changing the index has a delay. A complete list of criteria and coefficients is provided on the resource's website.[9]

The Public Opinion Index measures the public attitudes towards LGBTQ people. The index is calculated on the basis of polls and votes conducted by reputable organizations, using on arithmetic averages of various studies. If the survey contained a point "Do you approve of same-sex marriage?" and 56% of people answered "yes", then the value "56" will be used for the corresponding sub-item of the index. In some cases results of a survey can be used with less weight if the survey was specific or conducted among a specific group of people (for example, among representatives of a religion). Surveys over the age of 2 years are taken with less weights.[9]

The Equality Index is the arithmetic mean between the Legal Index and the Public Opinion Index.[9]

The data as of June 2, 2025:

 
Map of countries by the LGBTQ Equality Index, as of June 2, 2025
 
Map of countries by the LGBTQ Legal Index (2025)
 
Map of countries by the LGBTQ Public Opinion Index (2025)
Country or territory Equality
Index 		Legal
Index 		Public Opinion
Index
  Iceland 94 98 90
  Norway 87 87 87
  Guernsey 85 84 87
  Spain 83 100 66
  Uruguay 83 93 73
  Chile 81 100 61
  Germany 81 100 61
  Faroe Islands 80 92 68
  Andorra 80 86 74
  Denmark 80 93 67
  New Caledonia 79 88 71
  Canada 78 95 61
  Netherlands 78 90 65
  Jersey 77 93 60
  Puerto Rico 77 88 66
  Portugal 76 93 59
  Malta 76 100 53
  Australia 76 91 61
  Brazil 76 95 57
  Cuba 75 81 70
  New Zealand 75 87 64
  Austria 75 91 59
  Isle of Man 74 87 60
  Argentina 74 88 61
  Finland 74 85 63
  Belgium 74 87 61
  France 74 89 59
  Colombia 74 95 52
  Gibraltar 73 83 63
  Sweden 73 80 65
  Réunion 72 88 55
  Ireland 72 85 59
  Nepal 72 83 61
  South Africa 71 84 59
  Mexico 71 85 57
  Switzerland 70 76 64
  United Kingdom 69 82 56
  Guam 68 81 55
  Liechtenstein 68 69 68
  Thailand 68 68 68
  United States 68 80 56
  San Marino 67 64 71
  Italy 67 75 60
  Luxembourg 67 81 52
  Czechia 66 75 57
  Costa Rica 66 83 48
  Slovenia 66 84 48
  Israel 65 76 54
  Cape Verde 65 49 80
  Hong Kong, China 64 74 54
  Greece 64 90 39
  Ecuador 64 88 40
  Estonia 62 80 43
  Bolivia 62 85 39
  Bermuda 61 72 50
  Guadeloupe 60 88 32
  Martinique 60 89 32
  French Guiana 60 85 34
  Taiwan 60 73 48
  Fiji 60 60 —
  Aruba 59 70 48
  Cyprus 59 81 36
  India 58 61 55
  Marshall Islands 57 57 —
  Barbados 57 42 71
  Croatia 56 79 33
  Philippines 56 55 57
  Seychelles 56 45 66
  Japan 55 58 53
  Botswana 54 56 53
  Timor-Leste 54 49 60
  Montenegro 54 72 36
  China 54 42 66
  Mauritius 54 55 53
  Peru 53 61 46
  Micronesia 53 53 —
  Poland 53 61 45
  Venezuela 53 50 56
  Monaco 53 55 51
  Belize 52 51 53
  Hungary 51 60 41
  Vietnam 50 52 49
  South Korea 50 60 41
  Slovakia 49 66 33
  Bosnia and Herzegovina 49 60 39
  Nauru 48 48 —
  Bhutan 48 57 40
  Latvia 48 62 35
  Kosovo 48 63 33
  Serbia 48 62 34
  Macau, China 47 54 40
  North Macedonia 47 61 34
  Cambodia 47 45 49
  Laos 47 47 47
  Namibia 47 51 42
  Lithuania 47 68 26
  Ukraine 47 57 36
  Singapore 46 42 51
  Albania 46 62 30
  Sao Tome and Principe 46 47 44
  Romania 45 55 34
  Mozambique 45 46 44
  Angola 44 49 40
  Mongolia 42 63 22
  Suriname 42 62 23
  Lesotho 40 52 29
  Honduras 40 53 27
  Bulgaria 40 52 27
  Nicaragua 39 41 37
  Vanuatu 38 43 34
  Equatorial Guinea 38 38 —
  Guyana 38 22 53
  Guatemala 38 46 29
  Djibouti 37 37 —
  Panama 37 44 30
  Guinea-Bissau 37 50 24
  El Salvador 37 41 33
  Bahrain 37 31 42
  Moldova 36 64 8
  Rwanda 36 40 32
  Turkey 36 35 36
  Dominican Republic 35 40 30
  Antigua and Barbuda 35 54 17
  Tajikistan 35 35 —
  Paraguay 35 41 28
  Vatican City 35 35 —
  North Korea 34 34 —
  Republic of the Congo 34 45 22
  Saint Kitts and Nevis 32 49 15
  Palau 31 47 16
  Pakistan 31 31 31
  Bahamas 31 45 16
  Sri Lanka 30 24 37
  Eswatini 30 28 32
  Benin 30 42 18
  Central African Republic 30 30 —
  Dominica 30 45 14
  Haiti 29 48 11
  Georgia 29 46 12
  Trinidad and Tobago 29 30 27
  Madagascar 28 38 19
  Gabon 28 41 16
  Kiribati 28 28 —
  Belarus 27 38 16
  Russia 27 32 22
  Tuvalu 27 27 —
  Niger 26 42 10
  Kazakhstan 25 39 12
  Armenia 25 43 6
  Côte d'Ivoire 24 33 15
  Kyrgyzstan 23 34 12
  Bangladesh 23 15 31
  Samoa 21 21 —
  Jamaica 21 25 18
  Indonesia 21 30 12
  Democratic Republic of the Congo 21 32 10
  Uzbekistan 21 23 18
  Tonga 21 21 —
  Ghana 20 20 21
  Jordan 20 34 6
  Turkmenistan 20 20 —
  Myanmar 19 12 27
  Liberia 19 27 11
  Burkina Faso 19 29 9
  Kenya 19 21 17
  Grenada 19 21 17
  Papua New Guinea 19 19 —
  Syria 19 10 27
  Saint Lucia 19 21 17
  Malaysia 19 8 29
  Lebanon 18 18 19
  Azerbaijan 18 30 6
  Solomon Islands 17 17 —
  Palestine 15 24 6
  Sierra Leone 15 22 7
  Guinea 15 17 12
  Comoros 14 13 16
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 14 21 8
  Chad 14 15 12
  Zimbabwe 14 17 11
  Tunisia 13 11 15
  Iraq 13 3 22
  Saudi Arabia 12 3 22
  Sudan 12 6 19
  Algeria 12 4 19
  United Arab Emirates 11 0 23
  Libya 11 4 19
  Morocco 11 8 15
  Tanzania 11 8 14
  Mauritania 11 3 18
  Egypt 10 5 15
  Togo 10 6 14
  Yemen 10 3 17
  Ethiopia 10 7 13
  Uganda 9 1 18
  Burundi 9 8 10
  Cameroon 8 3 12
  Nigeria 8 7 8
  Mali 7 4 10
  South Sudan 7 7 —
  Zambia 7 7 6
  Qatar 7 4 9
  Malawi 6 6 6
  Kuwait 6 6 6
  Maldives 5 3 8
  Senegal 5 6 4
  Eritrea 5 5 —
  Iran 5 6 3
  Gambia 3 2 5
  Brunei 3 3 —
  Oman 3 3 —
  Afghanistan 1 1 2
  Somalia 1 1 —
  Greenland — 91 —
  Western Sahara — 24 —

About

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Equaldex is a collaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ movements.

The website's planning and development began in December of 2009. After 5 years of work, the Equaldex index went public on February 25, 2014.[10]

The site currently has 8 moderators: danlev, beeurd, Notdog1996, Samanthos, Ratabzoo, qcksws, Aleksander, and Unknownmiles.[11]

References

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