Support for Same Sex Marriage in the Americas

Let's look at the latest data from the Americas Barometer, a frequent survey of most countries in the Americas. I've used it before to examine state-level homophobia and transphobia in prior posts. Since my last losts, there is new data from 2023, and some new questions. So, just jumping right in, here is the mean of an 11-point scale of how strongly respondents approve (10) or disapprove (0) of same sex marriage (averaged from 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 & 2023), and grouped by region. Higher values indicate higher average support for same sex marriage.

And the same information, in tabular format, indicates that the highest support of same sex marriage in the Americas can be found in Canada (7.36), Uruguay (7.18), Argentina (6.68), the United States (5.90), Chile (5.82), Mexico (5.46), and Brazil (5.42), with considerably lower support throughout the Caribbean, the northernmost countries of South America, and Central America.