What do American people think about gay marriage?
Social axis · 🇺🇸 the United States · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
47% of American respondents take the position “Two men, or two women, should be able to marry in any country.”, against 42% for “Each society should keep marriage as it has always been.”, with 11% choosing neither. n = 103, margin of error ±9.8, weighted to the United States's adult population.
Where the United States sits on social
What is measured about the United States on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Urban population
UN World Urbanization Prospects · 2025
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80.2% |
somewhat above the middle
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Tertiary enrolment
UNESCO UIS · 2022
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79.4% |
higher than most countries
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Using the internet
ITU · 2024
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94.7% |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on gay marriage
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Each society should keep marriage as it has always been.
B · Two men, or two women, should be able to marry in any country.
World, unweighted: 45% A ·
17% neither ·
38% B · n = 3942
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47% B 🇺🇸 n=103 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- The united states public opinion on gay marriage
- Gay marriage poll the united states
- What do american people think about gay marriage
- What percentage of american people support gay marriage
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.