The data illustrates global views on premarital sex in 2013. In Indonesia, 97% of residents believe that premarital sex among adults is morally unacceptable.
Sex before marriage Nine out of ten people in Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Turkey believed that engaging in sex before marriage was not acceptable. The majority of the Europeans found premarital sex to be morally acceptable or not a moral issue at all. Indonesia has the biggest Muslim population in the world totaling over 209 million people. In some religions, like Catholicism and Islam, having sex before marriage is considered morally unacceptable.
Indonesia | 1 | 1 | 97 |
Jordan | 3 | 1 | 95 |
Pakistan | 2 | 0 | 94 |
Palestinian ter. | 4 | 1 | 94 |
Turkey | 2 | 5 | 91 |
Egypt | 6 | 2 | 90 |
Tunisia | 3 | 4 | 89 |
Malaysia | 5 | 3 | 87 |
Ghana | 4 | 6 | 86 |
Lebanon | 8 | 5 | 81 |
Kenya | 13 | 4 | 79 |
Uganda | 9 | 9 | 77 |
Nigeria | 13 | 3 | 77 |
Philippines | 7 | 20 | 71 |
India | 11 | 10 | 67 |
Senegal | 26 | 6 | 63 |
China | 17 | 12 | 58 |
El Salvador | 14 | 22 | 56 |
Bolivia | 11 | 22 | 53 |
South Africa | 17 | 21 | 48 |
Mexico | 21 | 26 | 44 |
Israel | 22 | 36 | 37 |
South Korea | 29 | 27 | 35 |
Brazil | 14 | 47 | 35 |
Russia | 10 | 40 | 30 |
United States | 36 | 29 | 30 |
Poland | 21 | 44 | 22 |
Argentina | 27 | 45 | 22 |
Japan | 26 | 47 | 21 |
Venezuela | 13 | 61 | 21 |
Canada | 47 | 34 | 15 |
Australia | 47 | 34 | 15 |
Britain | 44 | 38 | 13 |
Chile | 26 | 54 | 13 |
Italy | 41 | 42 | 11 |
Greece | 27 | 59 | 11 |
Czech Republic | 18 | 67 | 10 |
Spain | 39 | 52 | 8 |
Germany | 34 | 57 | 6 |
France | 47 | 47 | 6 |