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		</div><p>The number of young people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual in the UK is at an all-time high.</p>
<p>According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 3.3% of 16-to-24-year-olds identified as LGB in 2015. This is up from the 2.8% recorded in 2014.</p>
<p>The figures are part of the ONS’ Annual Population Survey. Categories like transgender and intersex are not included as this data relates to sexual identity, not gender.</p>
<p>So how does this compare with the population as a whole? Well across the entire population 93.7% identified as heterosexual.</p>
<p>Only 1.7% identified as LGB – but this is still an increase of 0.1% from the previous year.</p>
<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, the age category with the lowest proportion identifying as LGB is the over-65s at 0.6%.</p>
<p>In terms of country split, Northern Ireland has the highest national proportion of LGB people, followed by England, Scotland then Wales. London comes in with the highest regional proportion at 2.6%.</p>
<p>In terms of the gender split, 2% of men identified as LGB compared with 1.5% of women.</p>
<p>The ONS polls around 320,000 people for its Annual Population Survey.</p>
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