Gender Census 2023: 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? April to May 2023.

Participants: 40,375

The full report: click here

Raw data and summary tables: Google Sheets:

Identity words

The top five were:

  1. nonbinary: 63.1% (down 0.8% from last year)
  2. queer: 54.8% (up 0.2%)
  3. trans: 46.7% (up 8.5%)
  4. a person / human / [my name] / “I’m just me”: 42.5% (new this year)
  5. transgender: 40.3% (up 6.4%)
See the data and this graph on Google Sheets here.
Titles

The top 5 were:

  1. No title at all: 40.1% (up 1.5% from last year)
  2. Mx: 18.7% (down 1.4%)
  3. Mr: 11.5% (up 2.1%)
  4. Non-gendered professional/academic title: 9.4% (up 1.0%)
  5. Ms: 5.5% (up 1.1%)
See the data table and pie chart on Google Sheets here.
Pronouns

Here’s the top 5:

  1. They – they/them/their/theirs/themself: 74.5% (down 1.2% from last year)
  2. He – he/him/his/his/himself: 42.5% (up 2.1%)
  3. She – she/her/her/hers/herself: 32.7% (no change)
  4. It – it/it/its/its/itself: 19.4% (up 3.2%)
  5. Avoid pronouns / use name as pronoun: 13.2% (up 2.1%)
See the data table and graph on Google Sheets here.

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2023-06-06

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