Significant increases in the past five years in people saying the practices are justifiable is mirrored by sharply increasing acceptance of homosexuality, casual sex and prostitution over the same period, the World Values Survey found.
The latest wave of the survey, analysed by the Policy Institute at King's College London, focuses on 24 countries across the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East accounting for about half of the world's population.
The UK ranks in the top four countries for considering divorce, abortion, euthanasia, suicide and casual sex as justifiable. Swedes are most liberal on divorce and abortion, Germans on euthanasia and the French on suicide. While 48% of Australians think casual sex is justifiable, only 1% of Chinese people agree. Nigerians are least accepting of homosexuality and divorce; Egyptians oppose abortion and suicide most; and only 1% of South Koreans think prostitution is justifiable compared to more than a quarter of Australians.
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