{"id": 1229766, "name": "Marriage equality \u2014 Civil unions only (population)", "unit": "people", "description": "Population by country and year.", "createdAt": "2026-05-20T15:35:45.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-05-20T15:35:45.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1991-2025", "datasetId": 7970, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "marriage_civil_unions_only_pop", "catalogPath": "grapher/lgbt_rights/2026-05-11/lgbti_national_policy_dataset/lgbti_national_policy_dataset_combined_regions#marriage_civil_unions_only_pop", "descriptionShort": "The total population of countries where a national civil union or registered partnership is recognized, but same-sex marriage is not.", "descriptionProcessing": "From the original dataset, we combined three indicators \u2014 marriage equality (legal direction), marriage equality (illegal direction, i.e. constitutional or statutory bans), and civil unions \u2014 into a single categorical indicator (Legal, Civil unions only, Varies by region, No legal provisions, Banned) based on the proportion scores of all three. Country-years where marriage equality, the ban, or civil unions are only partially in effect across subnational jurisdictions are classified as \"Varies by region\"; country-years where a national civil union or registered partnership is recognized but same-sex marriage is not are classified as \"Civil unions only\". We then summed the populations of countries classified as \"Civil unions only\" within each region. Regional aggregates are computed from country-level data using [Our World in Data's region definitions](https://ourworldindata.org/world-region-map-definitions), the [World Bank's income group classification](https://ourworldindata.org/world-bank-income-groups-explained), and our [consolidated population data](https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources). A country is counted as having full implementation when the policy proportion equals 1.", "type": "int", "datasetName": "LGBTI National Policy Dataset", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-05-11", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Civil unions only", "unit": "people", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"attributionShort": "Velasco", "topicTagsLinks": ["LGBT+ Rights", "Human Rights"]}, "descriptionKey": ["This data comes from the LGBTI National Policy Dataset, compiled by Kristopher Velasco at Princeton University. It tracks the adoption, scope, and enforcement of 27 LGBTI-related policies across 197 countries, with annual data starting in 1991."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2025}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 273, "name": "Africa", "code": "OWID_AFR"}, {"id": 275, "name": "Asia", "code": "OWID_ASI"}, {"id": 276, "name": "Europe", "code": "OWID_EUR"}, {"id": 457, "name": "High-income countries", "code": "OWID_HIC"}, {"id": 461, "name": "Low-income countries", "code": "OWID_LIC"}, {"id": 460, "name": "Lower-middle-income countries", "code": "OWID_LMC"}, {"id": 294, "name": "North America", "code": "OWID_NAM"}, {"id": 277, "name": "Oceania", "code": "OWID_OCE"}, {"id": 295, "name": "South America", "code": "OWID_SAM"}, {"id": 459, "name": "Upper-middle-income countries", "code": "OWID_UMC"}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 15205, "title": "LGBTI National Policy Dataset", "description": "The LGBTI National Policy Dataset (Version 2.0) is a country-year-policy panel dataset tracking the adoption, scope, and enforcement of LGBTI-related policies across 197 countries from 1991 to 2025. The dataset is distributed in long format, where each row represents a single country in a single year for one specific policy-status combination. It is designed for use in comparative political research, policy diffusion analysis, and quantitative cross-national studies of LGBTI rights.\n\nThe dataset covers 27 distinct policy areas organized into 54 policy-status combinations (each policy paired with two mutually exclusive status directions). Of these 54 combinations, 36 contain substantive data; the remaining 18 are structural placeholders with all-zero values, included to maintain a fully balanced panel suitable for econometric methods.", "producer": "Velasco", "citationFull": "Velasco, Kristopher. 2026. \"LGBTI National Policy Dataset, Version 2.0.\" [Dataset].", "attributionShort": "Velasco", "versionProducer": "2.0", "urlMain": "https://osf.io/wta9p/overview", "dateAccessed": "2026-05-11", "datePublished": "2026-03-23", "license": {"url": "https://osf.io/wta9p/overview", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}, {"id": 14278, "title": "Population", "description": "Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.\n\nYou can find more information on these sources and how our time series is constructed on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "producer": "Various sources", "citationFull": "The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "attribution": "Population based on various sources (2024)", "attributionShort": "Population", "urlMain": "https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "dateAccessed": "2026-03-31", "datePublished": "2024-07-15", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}