Religious Restrictions Around the World
CORRECTION (Dec. 19, 2025): This interactive has been updated to correct SHI scores in 2019 for 88 countries due to the inadvertent inclusion of a measure on online social harassment in each country’s 2019 SHI.Q.1 score (“Were there crimes, malicious acts or violence motivated by religious hatred or bias?”). The corrections result in small changes (no more than 0.1 point) to these countries’ scores. For a full list of changes, refer to the errata page.
For more than a decade, Pew Research Center has been tracking global patterns in restrictions on religion – whether imposed by governments or by individuals or social groups. Scroll down to explore restrictions in 198 countries and territories, and see how each country’s restrictions have changed since 2007.
For more details on restrictions on religion around the world, read our latest report on the topic, “Government Restrictions on Religion Stayed at Peak Levels Globally in 2022.”
Note: Government restrictions include laws, policies and actions by authorities that impinge on religious beliefs and practices, while social hostilities involving religion include actions by private individuals or groups in society that limit such practices.
Pew Research Center. 2024. “Religious Restrictions Around the World.” doi: 10.58094/btnb-r624.