Saturday, August 23, 2025

How many adults and youth identify as LGBTQ in the United States?

 


Gallup finds 9.3% of United States adults identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than straight or heterosexual. The percentage has more than doubled since Gallup first measured LGBTQ identification in 2012.

According to the report, LGBTQ people make up just 1.8% of the Silent Generation, which comprises of those born 1945 or earlier, compared to 3% for baby boomers (born 1946-1964), 5.1% for Generation X (born 1965-1980), 14% for Millennials (born 1981-1996), and 23.1% for Generation Z (born 1997-2006).

The report’s age differences are consistent with other statistical reports about demographics in the broader LGBTQ community. Nearly three million people 13 years and older in the U.S. identify as transgender, according to a new report published by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.

This other report found that roughly 1% of the U.S. population above the age of 13 identifies as transgender. In total, the report concluded that there are at least 2.8 million individuals in the U.S. who identify as transgender and are 13 years of age or older.

Notably, younger age groups are significantly overrepresented in the overall breakdown of transgender Americans by age, according to the report. Roughly 724,000 people between the ages of 13 and 17 identify as transgender, representing 3.3% of youth, compared to a total of 2.1 million trans adults 18 years of age or older, about 0.8% of adults. 

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