Dataset
Age of consent for same-sex and different-sex partners
owid.age-of-consent-same-sex-partners-equaldex
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About
Difference between legal age of consent for homosexual sex and heterosexual sex.
Cite as: Equaldex (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Equal age of consent – Equaldex” [dataset]. Equaldex, “Equaldex” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1950–2026
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-05-14
- Units
- not stated
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-of-consent-same-sex-partners-equaldex
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| age_of_consent | text | Equal age of consent |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |