YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

General trends in young people’s values and attitudes  55 Figure 1.10: Self-reported sexual orientation of Slovenian youth. Try to categorize your sexual orientation: 1 2 3 4 5 Completely heterosexual (0) I do not know or do not want to answer I am a-sexual Completely homosexual (6) 11.1 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 5.0 4.4 4.2 1.9 4.7 2.6 7.3 0% 58.7 Source: Mladina 2020. As expected, a majority (58.7%) of young Slovenes thinks of themselves as completely heterosexual. Nevertheless, more than 4 out of 10 young people in Slovenia fall elsewhere on the spectrum. Slightly less than 5% claim to be completely homosexual. Public polling in Western European countries reveals similar patterns (Savin-Williams and Vrangalova, 2013). The share of completely homosexual orientations in the adult pop- ulation typically hovers between 1% and 9% (Ibid.). Focusing specifically on young people, a study by Yougov in 2015 on the British population (Dahlgreen, 2015) shows that 46% of Brits aged 18–24 think of them- selves as completely heterosexual. In Slovenia, the share of completely heterosexual people in the same youth subgroup stands at 58%. The share of completely homosexual Brits in the subgroup is 6%, while in Slo- venia it stands at 5.3%. Important to note is also that a significant share of young Slovenes (6.7%) did not want to answer the question, while in Britain only 3% are non-responders. These datamight suggest that youth in Slovenia are slightly more anxious about revealing sexual orientation