The number of Christian-majority countries fell between 2010 and 2020
Countries that lost their Christian majorities all saw growing percentages of religiously unaffiliated people.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Countries that lost their Christian majorities all saw growing percentages of religiously unaffiliated people.
Here’s how Chinese Americans describe their own identities, their views of the U.S. and China, and how they feel about achieving the American dream.
Africa is the only world region where the fertility rate is currently higher than the global replacement-level fertility.
After peaking in 2004, the annual number of international adoptions to the United States has fallen by 94% as of 2023.
In 2022, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Iran and Nigeria had the highest overall levels of restrictions on religion, among the 25 most populous countries.
Around three-quarters of adults in Hong Kong (74%) express an emotional attachment to China.
The world’s population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the century.
For each destination country, this Appendix tabulates the methods of deriving the religious composition of migrant stocks from various origin countries. We only estimate the religious composition of origin-destination country pairs that appear in the United Nations’ migrant stock database. For example, for Afghanistan, the UN only provides estimates of the number of migrants from […]
We asked respondents whether they approve or disapprove of how U.S. President Joe Biden is dealing with five major international concerns. Adults in some countries, including Kenya, Poland and Thailand, hold more positive assessments of how Biden has handled these five concerns. On the other hand, people in Tunisia and Turkey rate Biden extremely negatively […]
74% of Americans view the war between Russia and Ukraine as important to U.S. national interests – with 43% describing it as very important.
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