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    Event Transcript: Religion in Latin America

    Latin America is home to more than 425 million Catholics – nearly 40% of the world’s total Catholic population – and the Roman Catholic Church now has a Latin American pope for the first time in its history. Yet identification with Catholicism has declined throughout the region, according to a major new Pew Research Center […]

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    Methodology

    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 […]

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    Appendix 3: Social Hostilities Index

    The following table shows all 198 countries and territories in descending order of their scores on the Pew Research Center’s index of social hostilities involving religion as of the end of 2012. Pew Research has not attached numerical rankings to the countries because there are numerous tie scores and the differences between the scores of […]

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    Appendix 2: Government Restrictions Index

    –> The following table shows all 198 countries and territories in descending order of their scores on the Pew Research Center’s index of government restrictions on religion as of the end of 2012. Pew Research has not attached numerical rankings to the countries because there are numerous tie scores and the differences between the scores […]

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    Appendix C: Countries by Regional Classification

    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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    Appendix B: Countries by Economic Classification

    High Income (2013 per capita GNI of $12,616 U.S. dollars or more) Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belgium Bermuda Brunei Canada Cayman Islands Channel Islands Chile Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Equatorial Guinea Estonia Faeroe Islands Finland France French Polynesia Germany Greece Greenland Guam Hong Kong Iceland Ireland Isle of […]

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    2. Remittance Trends

    Overall, remittances to Spanish-speaking Latin America countries have more than doubled since 2000 in real dollars. Those Latin American nations received $22.9 billion in remittances in 2000, a figure that rose to an estimated $53.8 billion in 2013, according to World Bank data. Looking at trends since 2000, the onset of the U.S. Great Recession […]

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    3. Sources of Remittances to Latin America

    The United States is the single largest source of remittances to Spanish-speaking Latin America, accounting for $41 billion of the $52.9 billion in money sent home by migrants in 2012. Funds transferred to Latin America account for a third (33%) of remittances from the U.S., according to World Bank data analyzed by the Pew Research […]

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    2. Latinos and National Leadership

    When asked in an open-ended question who is the nation’s most important Hispanic leader in the country today, most Hispanics say either they don’t know (62%) or no one (9%).[3. numoffset=”3″ The results for Hispanics are not unique. For example, among Republicans and those who lean towards the Republican Party, a recent survey from the […]

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    Remittances to Latin America Recover—but Not to Mexico

    1. Overview Remittances to Spanish-speaking Latin American countries overall have recovered from a decline during the recent recession, with the notable exception of Mexico, according to World Bank data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. Migrants’ remittances to Mexico, an estimated $22 billion in 2013, are 29% below their 2006 peak. For all other Spanish-speaking […]