Gender Census 2022: Worldwide Summary

Who? Everyone whose gender doesn’t tidily fit into the female/male binary.

What? An online survey asking participants how they describe themselves and how they would like other people to refer to them.

When? July to August 2022.

Participants: 39,765

The full report: click here

Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:

Identity words

The top five were:

  1. nonbinary: 63.9% (down 4.3%)
  2. queer: 54.6% (up 6.6%)
  3. trans: 38.2% (up 4.7%)
  4. gender non-conforming: 34.5% (up 1.6%)
  5. transgender: 33.9% (up 4.7%)
See the data and this graph on Google Sheets here.
Titles

The top 5 were:

  1. No title at all: 38.6% (up 3.9%)
  2. Mx: 20.1% (down 4.6%)
  3. Mr: 9.4% (up 1.2%)
  4. Non-gendered prof/acad.: 8.4% (up 1.1%)
  5. Ms: 4.4% (down 0.5%)
See the data table and pie chart on Google Sheets here.
Pronouns

Here’s the top 5:

  1. They – they/them/their/theirs/themself (for referring to an individual) – 75.7% (down 3.5%)
  2. He – he/him/his/his/himself – 40.4% (up 6.6%)
  3. She – she/her/her/hers/herself – 32.7% (up 1.%)
  4. It – it/it/its/its/itself – 16.2% (up 6.9%)
  5. Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun – 11.1% (down 1.5%)
See the data table and graph on Google Sheets here.

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2022-08-22

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