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Number of countries where homosexuality is legal, 1791 to 2019

Countries where same-sex sexual acts are not considered a criminal offence. Some countries never contained a criminalising provision in the Penal Codes, while other
consciously removed the criminalising provisions.

179120191850190019502000World

Source: OWID based on Kenny & Patel (2017)