Legal Approaches to Sex Work Regulation by Country, as of March 2023

Of the 204 countries and territories detailed in this map, sex work is legal to a varying degree in 86, including in six whose laws vary within the country (delineated as mixed on this map), partially decriminalized in 11, fully decriminalized in five and illegal in the remaining 102.
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