Stats – Statistics by Country

1. Britain – Sex, Health Status & Older Adults 55 to 74

‘A mixed method study integrating data and analyses from the third British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles’ – 3,343 aged 55 to 74 (no gender/sex specified) published on PLoS One online March 2019 (added December 2020) 

2. England – Sexual Health & Well-being – 50 to 90-plus

Sexual Health and well-being of 6,201 core English Longitudinal Study of Ageing participants (women/men) age 50 to over 90 published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior January 2016 (added December 2020) 

3. Israel – Sex & Quality of Life – Older Adults 65 to 87

Study of 203 Israeli Jews, age range 65-87; 102 men, 101 women, 136 married, 15 cohabitating, 16 divorced, 7 single, published in the online Journal of Aging Science in 2019 (added December 2020) 

4. Burkina Faso – Sex & Men – 60 to 89

Research from “Elderly Men Sexuality in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)” on the sex lives of 200 men 60 to 89 (97.71% heterosexual, 1.53% bisexual, 0.76% gay) published in the Open Journal of Urology March 2019 (added December 2020) 

5. Britain – Frequency of Sex – 1991, 2001, 2012

Sex frequency of residents of Britain based on three multi-decade National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles surveys (1991: 18,876 aged 16-59; 2001: 11,161 aged 16-44 years; 2012: 15,162 aged 16-74 years) published on bmj.com May 2019 (added December 2020) 

6. Britain – Women Over 40 & Sex

YOU magazine survey of 2,000 women over 40 conducted by ResearchNow and published on you.co.uk July 2018 (84% straight, 12% bisexual or bi-curious in some way, 4% acted on that curiosity and had some kind of same-sex encounter) (added December 2020)

7. India – Millennials & Sex – 2018

Video content platform Vitamin Stree October 2018 online survey among 2,500 individuals (no gender/sex specified) (235 bisexual / 66 gay) (added December 2020) 

8. South Korea & Sex

Study of sexual behaviors among 2,500 adults (1,273 men and 1,227 women) in South Korea published inthe World Journal of Men’s Health February 2020 (added November 2020)

9. China – University Students & Sex

A China Family Planning Association, Tsinghua University’s Research Center for Public Health, & China Youth Network survey of 54,580 students from 1,764 universities in China published on sixthtone.com May 2020 (added November 2020)

10. Coronavirus Sex & the UK Lockdown

The U.S. Sun May 2020 online poll of 2,000 people surveyed by OnePoll for The Sun (added November 2020)

11. Sex & Intimacy

A SKYN Condom January 2020 Sex and Intimacy Survey of 2,000 nationally representative adults in the U.S. ages 18-39 (added November 2020)

12. Sexual Diversity in the U.S.

2015 Sexual Exploration in America Study of 2,021 adults (975 men, 1,046 women) focused on a broad range of sexual behaviors, published on plos.org July 2017 (added April 2020)

13. Eleven Common Female and Male Sex Fantasies

Statistics from a reason.com article based on a Journal of Sexual Medicine October 2014 survey of 1,516 adults (799 women / 717 men) in Canada (added November 2018)