Demographics

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This page will ideally include information on the estimated numbers of nonbinary people worldwide as well as in specific regions. We also will try to have other demographic and statistical information when available.

Obtaining numbers of nonbinary people is difficult due to many factors such as:

• Many nonbinary people are not out or for another reason they are not comfortable reporting their gender identity on surveys.
• Most large-scale population counts only allow for binary gender selections.
• Depending on how the gender question is worded, nonbinary people may think it is asking for their legal gender or their sex assigned at birth.

Worldwide

More information needed.

In the 2020 Gender Census, there were 24,576 respondents. However this is a limited set (e.g. mainly English-speaking people who use Tumblr and/or Twitter) and thus does not represent a full global count of people who identify outside the gender binary.

Australia

On the 2016 Australian Census, for the first time people could identify themselves as "male", "female", or "other". 1300 people selected "other".

United Kingdom

According to a 2014 blog post by activist Nat Titman, "at least 0.4% of the UK population defines as nonbinary when given a 3-way choice in terms of female, male or another description", but the count will be higher depending on variations in question phrasing.

USA

A large-scale survey of "transgender, trans, genderqueer, and non-binary" people was conducted in 2015: the United States Trans Survey (USTS). In total there were 27,715 respondents, 35% of whom (9,769 people) "indicated that their gender identity was best described as nonbinary or genderqueer." However, a greater number (13,353 people or 48%) answered "Yes" to the question "Do you identify as more than one gender or as no gender?" This echoes Titman's finding above, that question phrasing will affect the reported number of nonbinary/genderqueer people.

The USTS included a list of gender terms allowing respondents to check off multiple selections, as well as the option to write in a gender that wasn't listed. From this section of the survey:

• 31% of respondents checked "Non-binary"
• 29% of respondents checked "Genderqueer"
• 27% of respondents checked "Gender non-conforming or gender variant"
• 20% of respondents checked "Gender fluid/fluid"
• 18% of respondents checked "Androgynous"
• 14% of respondents checked "Agender"
• 7% of respondents checked "Two-spirit"
• 6% of respondents checked "Bi-gender"
• 5% of respondents checked "Butch"
• 4% of respondents checked "Multi-gender"
• 4% of respondents checked "Third gender"
• 3% of respondents checked "Intersex"
• 2% of respondents checked "Drag performer (king/queen)"
• 1% of respondents checked "A.G. or aggressive"
• 1% of respondents checked "Stud"
• 1% of respondents checked "Travesti"
• Less than 1% of respondents checked "Bulldagger"
• Less than 1% of respondents checked "Fa'afafine"
• Less than 1% of respondents checked "Mahu"
• and 12% of respondents wrote in a gender not listed by the survey

Extrapolated from the 2015 USTS, it was estimated that there could be over 450,000 nonbinary individuals in the United States of America, although totally accurate numbers are difficult to ascertain.

USA subpopulations

In a 2018 count, 0.2 percent of the USA homeless population (1,163 people) were nonbinary (where "nonbinary" was defined as "not male, female or transgender".)