Gender Census 2024: 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? May to June 2024.

Participants: 48,645

The full report: click here

Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:

Identity words

The top five were:

  1. nonbinary: 60.4% (down 2.7%)
  2. queer: 53.6% (down 1.2%)
  3. trans: 44.7% (down 2.0%)
  4. a person / human / [my name] / “I’m just me”: 39.1% (down 3.4%)
  5. transgender: 38.8% (down 1.5%)
See the data and this graph on Google Sheets here.
Titles

The top 5 were:

  1. No title at all: 42.2% (up 2.1%)
  2. Mx: 17.4% (down 1.3%)
  3. Mr: 11.3% (down 0.2%)
  4. Non-gendered professional/academic title: 9.2% (down 0.2%)
  5. Ms: 5.8% (up 0.3%)
See the data table and pie chart on Google Sheets here.
Pronouns

Here’s the top 5:

  1. They – they/them/their/theirs/themself: 75.5% (up 1.0% on last year)
  2. He – he/him/his/his/himself: 42.0% (down 0.5%)
  3. She – she/her/her/hers/herself: 36.0% (up 3.3%)
  4. It – it/it/its/its/itself: 20.3% (up 0.9%)
  5. Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 13.9% (up 0.7%)
See the data table and graph on Google Sheets here.

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Edit log
  • Edited 2024-10-09: Identity words top 5 list showed incorrect numbers.

2024-09-18

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