Countries banning non-human ape experimentation

This is a list of countries banning non-human ape experimentation.

The term non-human ape here refers to all members of the superfamily Hominoidea, excluding Homo sapiens.

Banning in this case refers to the enactment of formal decrees prohibiting experimentation on non-human apes, though often with exceptions for extreme scenarios.

[a] Experimentation on great apes—a smaller family within the ape superfamily—is currently banned in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand (29 countries total).

[1] These countries have ruled that chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans are so cognitively similar to humans that using them as test subjects is unethical.