Global Restrictions on Religion
About one-third of the countries in the world — 64 nations — have high or very high restrictions on religion.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
About one-third of the countries in the world — 64 nations — have high or very high restrictions on religion.
Just a quarter of Muslims in Indonesia now have confidence in Osama bin Laden; similarly sharp declines are seen elsewhere in the Muslim world.
Only 50% of Americans see political instability in Pakistan as a “major threat.”
More Pakistanis say India is a threat to their country than say so about the Taliban or al Qaeda.
On a 12-question news quiz, young adults answered fewer than half correctly on average.
A plurality of Americans think it was a bad decision to hold the Olympics in Beijing.
A relatively low number of U.S. Muslims (26%) view the U.S.-led war on terrorism as a sincere effort to reduce international terrorism.
Among the 47 nations and political entities surveyed in the latest Pew Global Attitudes report, the great majority (40) say that women are as good as or better than men as political leaders.
A few months before the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, only 9% of Pakistanis said that suicide attacks and other forms of violence against civilians are often or sometimes justified, a sharp decline from the 41% who expressed this view in 2004.
That’s the number of Pakistanis who say they are very or somewhat worried that the US could become a military threat to their country.
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