UK female population sexual identity 2020 | Statista

In 2020, approximately 94.1 percent of women in the United Kingdom identified as being heterosexual compared with 95.5 percent in 2014. Since 2014, the share of UK women that identified as Bisexual has increased from 0.7 percent, to 1.6 percent.

Sexual identity of females in the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2020

Characteristic	Heterosexual	Homosexual	Bisexual	Other	Don't know / Refusal
2014	95.5%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	2.8%
2015	95.5%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	2.6%
2016	95.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.5%	2.6%
2017	95.3%	0.9%	0.9%	0.6%	2.3%
2018	94.9%	0.9%	1.1%	0.6%	2.5%
2019	93.9%	1.1%	1.4%	0.7%	2.9%
2020	94.1%	1.1%	1.6%	0.7%	2.4%

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May 2022

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2014 to 2020

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