Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
This study calculates Religious Diversity Index (RDI) scores for countries, regions and the world based on the shares of eight major world religions (Buddhism, Christianity, folk or traditional religions, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, other religions considered as a group, and the religiously unaffiliated). The methodology used by Pew Research to calculate the levels of 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.
Pope Francis named his first group of new cardinals, often called “princes of the church,” last week. The 19 men will be formally appointed next month. Media reports have observed that Francis, the first pope from outside Europe in modern times, chose several cardinals from the developing world. Francis’ immediate predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, selected […]
Asia-Pacific Afghanistan American Samoa Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cook Islands Cyprus Fed. States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Guam Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Japan Kazakhstan Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Laos Macau Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Mongolia Nauru Nepal New Caledonia New Zealand Niue North Korea Northern Mariana Islands Pakistan Palau […]
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Global Patterns and Shifts The greater movement from middle-income countries is to some extent linked to underlying regional changes in migration. In sum, the origins of the international migrant population have changed in recent decades, becoming more Asian and Latin American or born in what is sometimes refered to as the Global South.[4. numoffset=”4″ According […]
Global Patterns and Shifts The shifts in migration by country income categories are to some extent associated with geographic changes in migrant destinations. Sometimes called the Global North, countries such as Canada and the United States in North America (among others including Australia and several countries in Europe) contain a greater share of international migrants […]
Roughly three-in-ten Hispanics (28%) show high levels of religious commitment based on their frequency of prayer and worship service attendance, as well as the importance of religion in their lives. Evangelical Protestants exhibit higher levels of religious commitment than other major Hispanic religious groups, on par with white non-Hispanic evangelical Protestants and black non-Hispanic Protestants. […]
Patterns of global migration and remittances have shifted in recent decades, even as both the number of immigrants and the amount of money they send home have grown, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the United Nations and the World Bank.
Chami, Ralph, Connel Fullenkamp and Samir Jahjah. 2003. “Are Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development?” International Monetary Fund Working Paper 03/189. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund. Connor, Phillip. 2012. “Faith on the Move: The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants.” Washington, DC: Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, March. International Monetary Fund. […]
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