Around 2.7 million people in Dutch LGBTQIA+ community

In the Netherlands, approximately 2.7 million people are lesbian, gay, bi-plus, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA+). That amounts to almost 18 percent of all Dutch people aged 15 and over, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported on Coming Out Day on Friday. It is the first time that the statistics agency has published an estimate for these groups.

According to the researchers, approximately 2.5 million people have “a non-heterosexual orientation.” They are lesbian, gay, or bisexual.

Another approximately 151,000 people are transgender, non-binary, or genderqueer. People who are non-binary or genderqueer do not identify as male or female and can be attracted to someone with the same physical sex or a different gender.

Approximately 45,000 people are intersex. They have both male and female sexual characteristics.

Approximately 272,000 men are homosexual and around 106,000 women are lesbian. The majority, almost 1.7 million people are bi-plus. They are attracted to more than one gender, a group for which the term bisexual used to be used.

According to the researchers, LGBTQIA+ people are generally younger than the average Dutch person and relatively often live in large cities.