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Levels of religious restrictions by percentage of the WORLD’S COUNTRIES Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015 Data for High/very high totals given in report. Moderate and low data % calculated from 2012 comparison. 39% of countries have high or very high restrictions on religious freedom
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Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and HostilitiesOverall Decline in Social Hostilities in 2013, Though Harassment of Jews Worldwide Reached a Seven-Year High
Pew Research Center Religion & Public LifeFEBRUARY 26, 2015
http://www.pewforum.org/2015/02/26/religious-hostilities/
39% of the world’s countries have high or very high restrictions on
religious freedom*
These 39% of countries include more than three-
fourths (77%) of the world’s population*
77%
19%4%
39%
31%
30%
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015Data for 2013. High/very high totals given in report. Moderate and low data % calculated from 2012 comparison.
Global Restrictions on Religious Freedom
Low 30%
Moderate 31%
High or Very High
39%
Levels of religious restrictions by percentage of the WORLD’S COUNTRIES
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015Data for 2013. High/very high totals given in report. Moderate and low data % calculated from 2012 comparison.
39% of countries have high or very high restrictions on religious freedom
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015Data for 2013. High/very high totals given in report. Moderate and low data % calculated from 2012 comparison.
High or Very High 77%
Low 4%
Moderate 19%
Levels of religious restrictions by percentage of GLOBAL POPULATION
These countries include more than three-fourths
of the world’s population
30%
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
30% of countries have government
restrictions that tend to target religious
minorities
Religious Restrictions and Social Hostilities Targeting Religious Minorities
61% of countries have social hostilitiesthat tend to target religious minorities
61%
Social Hostilities Involving ReligionVery HighSCORES 7.2 AND HIGHER
IsraelIndiaPalestinian territoriesPakistanNigeriaBangladeshSri LankaRussiaSyriaSomaliaAfghanistanTanzaniaIndonesiaEgyptCentral African RepublicIraqKenya
HighSCORES FROM 3.6 TO 7.1 Turkey
GeorgiaChinaGermanySwedenBosnia-HerzegovinaUgandaNigerMaldivesMoldovaBrazilTuvaluMexicoItalyKuwaitBulgariaVietnamMaliSaudi Arabia
YemenLibyaBurma (Myanmar)SudanThailandLebanonAlgeriaNepalTunisiaUnited KingdomKosovoArmeniaRomaniaGreeceIranFranceEthiopia
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Israel
India
Palestinian
territories
Pakistan
Nigeria
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Russia
Syria
Somalia
Afghanistan
Tanzania
Indonesia
Egypt
CAR
Iraq
Kenya
Social Hostilities Involving Religion
Very High HighModerateLow
IsraelIndiaPalestinian territoriesPakistanNigeriaBangladeshSri LankaRussiaSyriaSomaliaAfghanistanTanzaniaIndonesiaEgyptCARIraqKenya
YemenLibyaBurma (Myanmar)SudanThailandLebanonAlgeriaNepalTunisiaUnited KingdomKosovoArmeniaRomaniaGreeceIranFranceEthiopiaTurkey
GeorgiaChina
GermanySwedenBosnia-HerzegovinaUgandaNigerMaldivesMoldovaBrazilTuvaluMexicoItalyKuwaitBulgariaVietnamMaliSaudi Arabia
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Yemen
Libya
Burma (Myanmar)
Sudan
Thailand
Lebanon
Algeria
Nepal
Tunisia
United Kingdom
Kosovo
Armenia
Romania
Greece
Iran
France
Ethiopia
Turkey
Georgia
China
Germany
Sweden
BIH
Uganda
Niger
Maldives
Moldova
Brazil
Tuvalu
Mexico
Italy
Kuwait
Bulgaria
Vietnam
Mali
Saudi Arabia
Israel
India
Palestinian
territories
Pakistan
Nigeria
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Russia
Syria
Somalia
Afghanistan
Tanzania
Indonesia
Egypt
CAR
Iraq
Kenya
Social Hostilities Involving Religion
Very High HighModerateLow
IsraelIndiaPalestinian territoriesPakistanNigeriaBangladeshSri LankaRussiaSyriaSomaliaAfghanistanTanzaniaIndonesiaEgyptCARIraqKenya
YemenLibyaBurma (Myanmar)SudanThailandLebanonAlgeriaNepalTunisiaUnited KingdomKosovoArmeniaRomaniaGreeceIranFranceEthiopiaTurkey
GeorgiaChina
GermanySwedenBosnia-HerzegovinaUgandaNigerMaldivesMoldovaBrazilTuvaluMexicoItalyKuwaitBulgariaVietnamMaliSaudi Arabia
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Yemen
Libya
Burma (Myanmar)
Sudan
Thailand
Lebanon
Algeria
Nepal
Tunisia
United Kingdom
Kosovo
Armenia
Romania
Greece
Iran
France
Ethiopia
Turkey
Georgia
China
Germany
Sweden
BIH
Uganda
Niger
Maldives
Moldova
Brazil
Tuvalu
Mexico
Italy
Kuwait
Bulgaria
Vietnam
Mali
Saudi Arabia
Government/Legal Restrictions on Religious FreedomVery HighSCORES 6.6 AND HIGHER
ChinaIndonesiaUzbekistanIranEgyptAfghanistanMalaysiaSaudi ArabiaBurma (Myanmar)RussiaTurkeySyriaAzerbaijanSudanBruneiEritreaTajikistanSingapore
HighSCORES FROM 3.6 TO 7.1
MaldivesBahrainPakistanTurkmenistanIraqBelarusMoroccoJordanWestern SaharaLaosAlgeriaVietnamQatarKazakhstanMauritaniaYemenKyrgyzstanIsrael
KuwaitBulgariaSri LankaBangladeshArmeniaCubaOmanDjiboutiIndiaAngolaBhutanTunisiaRwandaLibyaUnited Arab EmiratesEthiopiaRomaniaGermany
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
MaldivesBahrainPakistanTurkmenistanIraqBelarusMoroccoJordanWestern Sahara
Laos
AlgeriaVietnamQatarKazakhstanMauritaniaYemenKyrgyzstanIsrael
KuwaitBulgaria
Sri LankaBangladeshArmeniaCubaOmanDjiboutiIndia
AngolaBhutanTunisia
RwandaLibyaUAEEthiopiaRomaniaGermany
MaldivesBahrainPakistanTurkmenistanIraqBelarusMoroccoJordanWestern SaharaLaosAlgeriaVietnam
QatarKazakhstan
MauritaniaYemenKyrgyzstanIsraelKuwaitBulgariaSri LankaBangladeshArmeniaCuba
OmanDjiboutiIndiaAngola
BhutanTunisiaRwandaLibyaUAEEthiopiaRomaniaGermany
ChinaIndonesiaUzbekistanIranEgyptAfghanistanMalaysiaSaudi ArabiaBurma (Myanmar)RussiaTurkeySyriaAzerbaijanSudanBruneiEritreaTajikistanSingapore
ChinaIndonesiaUzbekistanIranEgyptAfghanistanMalaysiaSaudi ArabiaBurma (Myanmar)RussiaTurkeySyriaAzerbaijanSudanBruneiEritreaTajikistanSingapore
Very High HighModerateLow
Government/Legal Restrictions on Religious Freedom
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Restrictions and Hostilities in the 25 Most Populous Countries
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Restrictions and Hostilities in the 25 Most Populous Countries
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Restrictions and Hostilities in the 25 Most Populous Countries
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Restrictions and Hostilities in the 25 Most Populous Countries
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Restrictions and Hostilities in the Most Populous Countries
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Restrictions and Hostilities in the Most Populous Countries
Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015
Restrictions and Hostilities in the 25 Most Populous Countries
Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke, The Price of Freedom Denied (2011) 206
Religious Freedom Correlations