{"id": 1076229, "name": "Number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal", "unit": "", "createdAt": "2025-06-27T10:17:29.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-06-27T10:17:29.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2000-2025", "datasetId": 7138, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "legal_status_legal_count", "catalogPath": "grapher/pew/2025-06-27/same_sex_marriage/same_sex_marriage#legal_status_legal_count", "descriptionShort": "Same-sex marriage is marriage and marriage recognition between two people of the same biological sex or gender identity.", "descriptionProcessing": "We converted the original data with the years of the legalization of same-sex marriage into a 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).", "type": "int", "datasetName": "Same-sex marriage around the world - Pew Research Center", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2025-06-27", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Legal", "tolerance": 0, "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Number of countries where same-sex marriage is legal", "topicTagsLinks": ["LGBT+ Rights", "Human Rights", "Marriages & Divorces"]}, "descriptionKey": ["The data is up to date as of June 2025."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2025}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 273, "name": "Africa", "code": null}, {"id": 275, "name": "Asia", "code": null}, {"id": 276, "name": "Europe", "code": null}, {"id": 294, "name": "North America", "code": null}, {"id": 277, "name": "Oceania", "code": null}, {"id": 295, "name": "South America", "code": null}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 6713, "title": "Same-sex marriage around the world - Pew Research Center", "description": "Since the first same-sex marriages were legally recognized in the Netherlands in 2001, nearly 40 other jurisdictions \u2013 mostly in Europe and the Americas \u2013 have enacted laws allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. This year, Thailand and Liechtenstein join the list.\n\nUse the interactive table below to sort the places allowing same-sex marriages by name, region and the year legal same-sex marriage took effect. The table also includes some key facts about the process in each jurisdiction.", "producer": "Pew Research Center", "citationFull": "Pew Research Center (2025). https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/gay-marriage-around-the-world/\n\n\u201cSame-Sex Marriage Around the World.\u201d Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (2 June 2025) https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/gay-marriage-around-the-world/.", "urlMain": "https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/gay-marriage-around-the-world/", "dateAccessed": "2025-06-27", "datePublished": "2025-06-02", "license": {"url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/about/terms-and-conditions/", "name": "\u00a9 Pew Research Center"}}]}