Where is incest between adults a crime?
How incest between adults is treated in 164 countries, from sources last checked September 2026. Choose a country for its classification, the source, and how its neighbours compare.
- Legal between adults 53 countries (32%), including China, India, Brazil and Russia.
- Criminal offense 111 countries (68%), including United States, Indonesia, Pakistan and Nigeria.
Legal between adults 53
- Angola
- Argentina
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- China
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- France
- Gabon
- Guatemala
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Japan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Portugal
- Republic of the Congo
- Russia
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- São Tomé and Principe
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Suriname
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Criminal offense 111
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Philippines
- Poland
- Qatar
- Romania
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
About this data
Compiled from Wikipedia: Laws regarding incest; sources last checked 17 September 2026. The full dataset is available as JSON.
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A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.