The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020; 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year.

Our study analyzes 198 countries and territories and is based on policies and events in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available.

For more than a decade, Pew Research Center has been tracking global patterns in restrictions on religion – both those imposed by governments and hostilities committed by individuals and social groups.

Immigrants who qualify for TPS are living in the U.S. and come from designated nations deemed unsafe to return to.

China has the world’s largest population (1.426 billion), but India (1.417 billion) is expected to claim this title next year.

As of August 2022, the College of Cardinals will have 132 voting members, 40% of whom are European, down from 52% in 2013. 

79 countries and territories out of the 198 studied around the world (40%) had laws or policies in 2019 banning blasphemy.

Immigrants – particularly those from African nations – are a growing share of the U.S. Black population.

Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.

Fewer than 1 million foreign students enrolled for either online or in-person classes at U.S. universities in the 2020-21 school year.