More than 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay is a crime | World news | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/16/countries-where-being-gay-is-a-crime

Five countries – Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen – still have a statutory death penalty for homosexuality, while a further 71 countries punish same-sex couples with lesser sentences of imprisonment or corporal punishment.

---Steve