Map of the 76 countries with laws against sexual relations between people of the same sex.
Many of the world’s 76 countries with anti-homosexuality laws have Muslim majorities, but most are majority-Christian.
Of the total, 43 percent (33 countries, in this blog’s tally) have a Muslim majority. Majority-Christian countries account for 49 percent of the total (37 countries).
Muslim majority
1 Algeria
2 Egypt
3 Eritrea
4 Ethiopia
5 Gambia
6 Libya
7 Mauritania
8 Morocco
9 Somalia
10 South Sudan
11 Sudan
12 Tunisia
13 Afghanistan
14 Bangladesh
15 Brunei
16 Daesh (or ISIS / ISIL) — acts like a violently repressive country, but lacks international recognition
17 Iran
18 Iraq
19 Kuwait
20 Lebanon (law ruled invalid in one court)
21 Malaysia
22 Maldives
23 Oman
24 Pakistan
25 Palestine/Gaza Strip — also lacking broad international recognition as a country
26 Qatar
27 Saudi Arabia
28 Syria
29 Turkmenistan
30 United Arab Emirates
31 Uzbekistan
32 Yemen
33 Indonesia (Aceh Province and South Sumatra only)
Christian majority
1 Angola
2 Botswana
3 Burundi
4 Cameroon
5 Comoros
6 Ghana
7 Guinea
8 Kenya
9 Liberia
10 Malawi (enforcement of law suspended)
11 Namibia
12 Nigeria
13 Senegal
14 Sierra Leone
15 Swaziland
16 Tanzania
17 Togo
18 Uganda
19 Zambia
20 Zimbabwe
21 Antigua & Barbuda
22 Barbados
23 Dominica (But see “Dominica leader: No enforcement of anti-gay law” )
24 Grenada
25 Guyana
26 Jamaica
27 St Kitts & Nevis
28 St Lucia
29 St Vincent & the Grenadines
30 Trinidad & Tobago
31 Papua New Guinea
32 Cook Islands
33 Kiribati
34 Samoa
35 Solomon Islands
36 Tonga
37 Tuvalu
Other
1 Bhutan
2 India
3 Myanmar
4 Singapore
5 Sri Lanka
6 Mauritius
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Boy, talking about misleading statistics. Of ALL the Muslim countries, which have anti-gay laws? ALL of them, some of of them even have the death penalty for gay sex.
Of all the other countries who has such laws? A few countries, mostly in Africa, and mostly developing nations.
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Dear Dom,
You’re wrong.
Not all Muslim-majority countries have anti-gay laws. Without deep research, I come up with the following list of Muslim-majority countries without anti-gay laws: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Niger, Tajikistan and Turkey.
Christian-majority countries with anti-gay laws aren’t just “a few countries,” unless you think that the number 37 qualifies as “a few.” Technically it’s true that they are “mostly” in Africa — 54% of them are; the remaining 46% are not.
— Colin Stewart, editor/publisher of this blog
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Also, the anti gay laws in many of those Islamic countries were introduced by (Christian) European colonial governments, particularly section 377 of the British Penal Code, and retained after independence.
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Correction: Mauritius is a Hindu majority country, not Muslim
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Dear Adi,
You’re right. Thanks for pointing out that error.
I’ve fixed it in a revised version of that article.
Best,
Colin Stewart
Editor/publisher of this blog
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