{"chart":{"title":"Number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal","subtitle":"","citation":"Pew Research Center (2025)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/same-sex-marriage-country-count","selection":["World"]},"columns":{"Number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal":{"titleShort":"Number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal","titleLong":"Number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal - Pew Research Center","descriptionShort":"Same-sex marriage is marriage and marriage recognition between two people of the same biological sex or gender identity.","descriptionKey":"The data is up to date as of June 2025.","descriptionProcessing":"We converted the original data with the years of the legalization of same-sex marriage into an expanded dataset with the legal status of same-sex marriage for each country and year.\n\nWe estimated regional aggregations of these status by using [Our World in Data definitions of regions](https://ourworldindata.org/world-region-map-definitions) and our [consolidated population data](https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources).","shortUnit":"","unit":"","timespan":"2000-2025","type":"Integer","owidVariableId":1230407,"shortName":"legal_status_legal_count","lastUpdated":"2026-06-03","nextUpdate":"2027-06-03","citationShort":"Pew Research Center (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data","citationLong":"Pew Research Center (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal – Pew Research Center” [dataset]. Pew Research Center, “Same-sex marriage around the world – Pew Research Center” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1230407.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-10-31"}