Comparing Levels of Religious Nationalism Around the World
We asked people in three dozen countries how they see religion’s role in society, government and national identity.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
We asked people in three dozen countries how they see religion’s role in society, government and national identity.
We asked people in 35 countries about the influence of specific religious texts on their national laws. The texts in question varied by country: For example, adults in predominantly Christian countries were asked about the influence of the Bible. And in Muslim-majority countries, they were asked about the influence of the Quran. In most middle-income […]
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 […]
The religiously unaffiliated population is the world’s third-largest religious category and grew the second-fastest between 2010 and 2020.
Korean American adults are much less likely than adults in South Korea to be religiously unaffiliated or to be Buddhist.
Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by country.
Find out what percentage of adults have joined or left Buddhism, or remained Buddhist since childhood, in six countries.
Find out what percentage of adults have joined or left Islam, or remained Muslim since childhood, in 13 countries.
Find out what percentage of adults have joined or left Hinduism, or remained Hindu since childhood, in four countries.
We ran a survey experiment on religious tolerance in Australia to examine whether respondents’ answers capture a general distaste for religion rather than intolerance for particular religious groups.
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