New Zealand and the UK are certainly not the only countries where people love their tattoos. There are countries all around the world where tattoos are more than welcome!

According to a travel poll, you can see how interested a country is in tattoos based on their Instagram usage! For instance, this poll states that 14% of Italian Instagram users are pro-tattoo, but that number only accounts for people who use the social media platform. Chances are these numbers are much higher than they state here, but Instagram is a great place to check out tattoos, no matter where you are in the world!

This same poll states that the order of tattoo-friendly countries based on Instagram use is as follows:

Italy 14% Germany 12% United Kingdom 9% Russia 8% Spain 7% United States 4% Brazil 4%

As far as actual numbers, though, they can be tough to find, and it depends on who you ask. There are no formal studies on tattoo popularity and acceptability throughout the world, but if you ask people who live in these countries, they can give you a pretty good idea.

You might not think that Russia would be a tattoo-friendly country, but it actually is! Things are a little bit different there, though, because a large number of people who are heavily tattooed are former prison inmates. These men get tattoos done in prison to commemorate the crimes they’re serving time for. These men are not the only people with tattoos in the country, they’re just the heavily visible ones.

In Spain, Barcelona is a hot spot for people with tattoos, both tourists and locals! The legal age to start getting tattoos without parental consent is 16, so teenagers can go to local tattoo parlours and get inked anytime they want. Barcelona alone has more than 15 tattoo parlours, based on Google Maps, and that’s just in one city! That doesn’t even account for the entire country, so Spain can most definitely be considered a tattoo-friendly country.

On the other side of the world, in the US, they’ve tried to study the numbers and find out how many people do have tattoos in the country – Harris Interactive and the American Academy of Dermatology conducted a few studies in the past 15 years, finding that roughly 14-25% of adults in the United States have a minimum of one tattoo. It’s safe to say that the United States is a tattoo-friendly country.

It’s always a good idea to check the country you’re travelling to before you go, just to make sure that you aren’t breaking any laws or odd looks for showing your tats.