Datasets

This Pew Research Center study is a collection of data on government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in 198 countries and territories from 2007 to 2022, collected by human coding of more than a dozen publicly available, widely cited sources of information, including the U.S. Department of State’s annual reports on international […]

This dataset provides estimates of the number of people of all ages in seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other religions, and those who are religiously unaffiliated. The “other religions” category includes Baha’is, Daoists (also spelled Taoists), Jains, Shintoists, Sikhs, Wiccans, Zoroastrians and many small groups, some of which can […]

Download the public-use file (PUF) dataset for the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS), which provides estimates of the U.S. population’s religious composition, beliefs and practices. Pew Research Center.

This downloadable folder includes files with Pew Research Center’s estimates of the religious breakdown of immigrants to, and emigrants from, countries and regions of the world in Excel and csv formats. To help users better understand how estimates were made when available data was incomplete, this folder also includes a case study of documents and […]