The Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities (EQOSOGI) project collects comparable cross-country data on legal frameworks that impact sexual and gender minorities’ access to markets, services, and spaces in a country and examines how those laws either enable or inhibit the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities. Laws and regulations that discriminate against sexual and gender minorities not only impede social and economic prosperity for the individuals concerned, but can limit a country’s wider economic prosperity and development.
The EQOSOGI data in this dataset were collected in 2020 in 16 pilot countries covering a range of World Bank regions and income groups. Data presented in Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities are current as of February 28, 2020. The second round of data will be collected in 2023 and include the 16 original countries and add data for an additional 46 countries. The EQOSOGI project aims to continue expanding its dataset to more countries in the future and also set up a historical data panel showing the path of reform over multiple years. As the dataset grows, it will allow for simple correlation analysis to compare the EQOSOGI data on laws and regulations with measures of economic growth and prosperity.