Where is pornography legal?
How pornography is treated in 69 countries, from sources last checked September 2026. Choose a country for its classification, the source, and how its neighbours compare.
- Legal 2 countries (3%): United States and Netherlands.
- Restricted 17 countries (25%), including India, Japan, Turkey and United Kingdom.
- Illegal 49 countries (71%), including China, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Russia.
- Varies by region 1 country (1%): Iraq.
Legal 2
Restricted 17
Illegal 49
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Bhutan
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- China
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Kenya
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Philippines
- Poland
- Qatar
- Russia
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Zambia
Varies by region 1
- Iraq
About this data
Compiled from Wikipedia: Pornography laws by region; 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.