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Lesbians in the U. S. are estimated to be about 2. 6 % of the population, according to a National Opinion Research Center survey of sexually active adults who had had same-sex experiences within the past year, completed in 2000.

A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30 %— five times the rate of population growth in the U. S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.

The government of the United Kingdom does not ask citizens to define their sexuality.

However, a survey by the UK Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) in 2010 found that 1. 5 % of Britons identified themselves as gay or bisexual, and the ONS suggests that this is in line with other surveys showing the number between 0. 3 % and 3 %.

Estimates of lesbians are sometimes not differentiated in studies of same-sex households, such as those performed by the U. S. census, and estimates of total gay, lesbian, or bisexual population by the U. K. government.

However, polls in Australia have recorded a range of self-identified lesbian or bisexual women from 1. 3 % to 2. 2 % of the total population.