Intolerance toward homosexuality in Africa 2020

According to a survey published in 2021, Senegal is the most intolerant country in Africa toward people of different sexual identity or orientation. A total of 98 percent of respondents from Senegal stated they would dislike having homosexual people as neighbors. Other countries in which over 90 percent of the respondents declared the same were Liberia, Malawi, Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.

Intolerance toward people of different sexual identity or orientation in own neighborhood in African countries as of 2020

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Release date

July 2021

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

2019/2020

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "For each of the following types of people, please tell me whether you would like having people from this group as neighbors, dislike it, or not care: Homosexuals? (% who say “would strongly dislike” or “would somewhat dislike”)
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