Tolerance among African societies by group of people

Between 2016 and 2018, the majority of African respondents indicated that they would like to strongly, somewhat have, or do not care to have people who had different ethnicities other than theirs (91 percent) as neighbors. Moreover, while 87 percent of the respondents reported that they would like to live with people of different religions, 82 percent indicated they would do same with immigrants and foreign workers. On the other hand, only 20 percent of them marked that they would have no issue (including somewhat) having LGBTQ persons as neighbors.

Would you like too or not care to have the following types of people as neighbors?

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Different ethnicity	91%
Different religion	87%
Immigrants/foreign workers	82%
LGBTQ	20%

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Release date

May 2020

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

September 2016 to September 2018

Number of respondents

45,823 respondents

Special properties

strongly, somewhat like and would not care responses

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

This survey considered 34 countries. The source explains that explains that The countries covered are home to almost 80% of the continent’s population. The data are weighted to ensure nationally representative samples. When reporting multi-country findings such as regional or Africa-wide averages, each country is weighted equally (rather than in proportion to population size)."

Respondents were asked the following question: "For each of the following types of people, please tell me whether you would like having people from this group as neighbors, dislike it, or not care: People of a different religion? People from other ethnic groups? Homosexuals? Immigrants or foreign workers?"

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