Publications
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Attending a Seder is common practice for American Jews
Percentage of U.S. Jews who say they participated in a Seder last year.
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U.S. doesn’t rank high in religious diversity
From a global perspective, the United States really is not all that religiously diverse.
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Global Religious Diversity
A new report measures religious diversity by the percentage of each country’s population in eight categories — Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, the unaffiliated, folk religionists and members of other religions.
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Table: Religious Diversity Index Scores by Country
For more recent statistics about global religious diversity, read our 2026 report “Religious Diversity Around the World,” which is based on our religious composition estimates published in 2025. Download table as: Excel The Religious Diversity Index (RDI) Table is based on the index scores in Global Religious Diversity. For more information on how we calculated these scores, […]
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Asia Foundation: Among Afghan public, mixed support for women’s rights
As national elections in Afghanistan approach. surveys show mixed feelings among the Afghan public about women’s role in society.
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Wash. Post: See where every execution has taken place since 1977, in one map
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Lower support for death penalty tracks with falling crime rates, more exonerations
Over the past half-century, public support for the death penalty has generally tracked increases and declines in rates of violent crime.
