"Figure 5: Lesbian, gay or bisexual population by legal marital status, UK, 2017","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. Single, never married or civil partnered. 2. Married includes separated. 3. The Marriages (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 made provision for the marriage of same sex couples in England and Wales from 29th March 2014 onwards. 4. Civil Partnerships were introduced in England and Wales in December 2005. Includes separated. 5. Confidence intervals are presented on the graph to give an estimated range of values within which the actual value is likely to fall 95% of the time. " "Unit","%" "","" "","Percentage of population who identify as LGB","Upper confidence bound","Lower confidence bound" "Single","69.4","71.7","67.1" "Married: Opposite sex","12.7","14.2","11.2" "Civil partnered","7.1","8.4","5.9" "Divorced or dissolved civil partner","4.8","5.7","3.9" "Married: Same sex","5.4","6.5","4.2" "Widowed or surviving civil partner","0.7","1.0","0.4"