{"id":1229771,"name":"Marriage equality — Varies by region (number of countries)","unit":"countries","createdAt":"2026-05-20T15:35:45.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-20T15:35:45.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"1991-2025","datasetId":7970,"shortUnit":"","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"marriage_varies_by_region_count","catalogPath":"grapher/lgbt_rights/2026-05-11/lgbti_national_policy_dataset/lgbti_national_policy_dataset_combined_regions#marriage_varies_by_region_count","descriptionShort":"The number of countries where same-sex marriage, the marriage ban, or civil unions are only partially in effect across subnational jurisdictions.","descriptionProcessing":"From the original dataset, we combined three indicators — marriage equality (legal direction), marriage equality (illegal direction, i.e. constitutional or statutory bans), and civil unions — into a single categorical indicator (Legal, Civil unions only, Varies by region, No legal provisions, Banned) based on the proportion scores of all three. Country-years where marriage equality, the ban, or civil unions are only partially in effect across subnational jurisdictions are classified as \"Varies by region\"; country-years where a national civil union or registered partnership is recognized but same-sex marriage is not are classified as \"Civil unions only\". We then counted the countries classified as \"Varies by region\" within each region. Regional aggregates are computed from country-level data using [Our World in Data's region definitions](https://ourworldindata.org/world-region-map-definitions), the [World Bank's income group classification](https://ourworldindata.org/world-bank-income-groups-explained), and our [consolidated population data](https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources). A country is counted as having full implementation when the policy proportion equals 1.","type":"int","datasetName":"LGBTI National Policy Dataset","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2026-05-11","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"name":"Varies by region","unit":"countries","numDecimalPlaces":0},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"major","presentation":{"attributionShort":"Velasco","topicTagsLinks":["LGBT+ Rights","Human Rights"]},"descriptionKey":["This data comes from the LGBTI National Policy Dataset, compiled by Kristopher Velasco at Princeton University. It tracks the adoption, scope, and enforcement of 27 LGBTI-related policies across 197 countries, with annual data starting in 1991."],"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":1991},{"id":1992},{"id":1993},{"id":1994},{"id":1995},{"id":1996},{"id":1997},{"id":1998},{"id":1999},{"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":"OWID_AFR"},{"id":275,"name":"Asia","code":"OWID_ASI"},{"id":276,"name":"Europe","code":"OWID_EUR"},{"id":457,"name":"High-income countries","code":"OWID_HIC"},{"id":461,"name":"Low-income countries","code":"OWID_LIC"},{"id":460,"name":"Lower-middle-income countries","code":"OWID_LMC"},{"id":294,"name":"North America","code":"OWID_NAM"},{"id":277,"name":"Oceania","code":"OWID_OCE"},{"id":295,"name":"South America","code":"OWID_SAM"},{"id":459,"name":"Upper-middle-income countries","code":"OWID_UMC"},{"id":355,"name":"World","code":"OWID_WRL"}]}},"origins":[{"id":15205,"title":"LGBTI National Policy Dataset","description":"The LGBTI National Policy Dataset (Version 2.0) is a country-year-policy panel dataset tracking the adoption, scope, and enforcement of LGBTI-related policies across 197 countries from 1991 to 2025. The dataset is distributed in long format, where each row represents a single country in a single year for one specific policy-status combination. It is designed for use in comparative political research, policy diffusion analysis, and quantitative cross-national studies of LGBTI rights.\n\nThe dataset covers 27 distinct policy areas organized into 54 policy-status combinations (each policy paired with two mutually exclusive status directions). Of these 54 combinations, 36 contain substantive data; the remaining 18 are structural placeholders with all-zero values, included to maintain a fully balanced panel suitable for econometric methods.","producer":"Velasco","citationFull":"Velasco, Kristopher. 2026. \"LGBTI National Policy Dataset, Version 2.0.\" [Dataset].","attributionShort":"Velasco","versionProducer":"2.0","urlMain":"https://osf.io/wta9p/overview","dateAccessed":"2026-05-11","datePublished":"2026-03-23","license":{"url":"https://osf.io/wta9p/overview","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}