Where is prostitution legal? Prostitution laws by country

# Prostitution Laws > How the world’s countries regulate prostitution, sourced to the statute. A world map and 196 country entries (15 full profiles, the rest overviews) on how prostitution and sex work are regulated: the legal model, whether selling, buying, brothels, procuring and advertising are legal, the penalties, the statutes, pending bills and statistics, each fact tied to an official source and dated. This describes the law; it is not legal advice. Laws change and local rules vary: check the linked official sources, and consult a lawyer before relying on it. Text and data are CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): reuse them with the credit "Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org)" and a link. Every page answers the same questions; the legal models are: Decriminalisation; Regulation (legal & licensed); Legal, organisation banned; Buying criminalised (Nordic model); Selling and buying prohibited. ## Data - [Country index (JSON)](https://prostitutionlaws.org/data/index.json): one small entry per country: legal model, the status of each question, pending bills, region, links - [One country (JSON)](https://prostitutionlaws.org/data/countries/de.json): the full profile with every source, at /data/countries/<ISO 3166 alpha-2, lower case>.json - [Everything (JSON)](https://prostitutionlaws.org/data/countries.json): all profiles in one file - [Everything (CSV)](https://prostitutionlaws.org/data/countries.csv): one row per country, the model and the status of each question - [Changes (RSS)](https://prostitutionlaws.org/changes.xml): new and updated entries - [OpenAPI description](https://prostitutionlaws.org/openapi.json): the endpoints above, OpenAPI 3.1 - [Developers](https://prostitutionlaws.org/developers/): the data API, the remote MCP server (https://prostitutionlaws.org/mcp) and the A2A agent (https://prostitutionlaws.org/a2a) ## Guides - [Where is prostitution legal?](https://prostitutionlaws.org/where-is-prostitution-leg

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