More worldwide say their communities are good for minorities: Gallup

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A larger proportion of the global population says their community is a good place to live for minority groups, according to a new survey.

The Gallup World Poll from 2025, which was released Thursday, found that increasing numbers of adults worldwide said that where they live is a good place for gay or lesbian people, immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities.

Populations with racial and ethnic minority backgrounds were reportedly the group most accepted in survey respondents’ communities at 74 percent, followed by immigrant populations at 66 percent and gay and lesbian populations at 40 percent.

The latter group has seen the largest increases in positive public attitudes since the global survey began in 2006, when only 23 percent of respondents said their community was a good place for gay and lesbian people to reside.

The survey found that a higher perception of acceptance for minority groups is correlated with positive outlooks on life in general. In places where residents say their community is a good place for all three of these groups to live, a higher percentage of people report they are “thriving.”

Greater acceptance for minority populations is also tied to positive metrics like city satisfaction, friendship opportunities, safety, and respect for women and children. Gallup’s researchers noted in their Thursday report that this relationship “does not prove causation” and that those who feel accepted in their communities may generally hold more positive views of those around them.

Immigrants residing in the U.S. were the most likely to say that their community was a good place for migrants to live. Ninety-six percent of this population expressed a positive outlook about the condition of where they live for immigrants in Gallup’s surveys in 2024 and 2025.

Only 81 percent of U.S.-born respondents said that their community was a good place for immigrants to live.

Ninety-one percent of immigrant populations in Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Canada said their communities were a good place for migrants to live, followed closely by countries like Spain, Australia, Luxembourg and New Zealand. The global median of immigrants who said their communities are a good place for people like them to live in is 78 percent.

The Gallup poll surveyed approximately 1,000 people from each of the around 140 countries included in the study from March 27, 2025, to Dec. 5, 2025. The margin of error ranges between approximately 2.2 percentage points to 5.5 points.

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