The Country Ranking section is where you can see the bigger picture – quite literally.

This is the latest ILGA-Europe rating of 49 European countries.

So, what can the Country Ranking section show me?

Select “All countries” and “All categories” from the drop-down menus at the same time to see the overall Rainbow Europe ranking based on all the criteria in our six categories.

You can use the first drop-down menu to compare the 27 current European Union member states to each other.

If you’d like to investigate which countries are leading the way in a particular area of law and policy, just use the second drop-down box to pick the area you are interested in. So if you were wondering which countries are setting good standards on legal gender recognition for example, just click on that category in the drop-down list. The results might surprise you!

The colour assigned to each country gives you an indication of where the countries are positioned on a scale between 0% (gross violations of human rights, discrimination) and 100% (respect of human rights, full equality).

Just a note - this colour doesn’t change when you are arranging countries by individual categories. So, don’t be alarmed if the colours vary greatly among countries when you group them together in this way!