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short readsFeb 6, 2025

What the data says about U.S. foreign aid

The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.
reportDec 18, 2024

3. Median scores for government restrictions and social hostilities stay the same in 2022

In 2022, global median scores on the Center’s Government Restrictions and Social Hostilities Indexes mirrored 2021. But some regions saw change since 2021.
short readsJul 8, 2024

In some countries, immigration accounted for all population growth between 2000 and 2020

In 14 countries and territories, immigration accounted for more than 100% of population growth during this period.
short readsOct 26, 2023

Most countries don’t observe daylight saving time

Only about a third of the world’s countries practice daylight saving time, and the vast majority of them are in Europe.
short readsDec 12, 2023

China’s Christian population appears to have stopped growing after rising rapidly in the 1980s and ’90s

Between 2010 and 2018, the share of Chinese adults who identify with Christianity remained stable at about 2%.
reportNov 29, 2022

4. Restrictions in the 25 most populous countries

CORRECTION (Dec. 19, 2025): Some of the text in Chapter 4 has been corrected with updated SHI figures for 2019. Germany is now described as experiencing a “modest decrease,” rather than a “large decline,” in its SHI score between 2019 and 2020. Refer to the errata page for details. More than 5 billion people – almost three-quarters of […]
reportMar 5, 2024

3. Median scores for government restrictions peak, social hostilities involving religion tick down in 2021

Government restrictions on religion, by region The global median score on the Government Restrictions Index (GRI) rose from 2.8 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2021, the highest it’s been since Pew Research Center created the index in 2007. Both Europe and the Americas saw increases in their regional GRI scores, though their median scores remained […]
featureNov 29, 2022

Restrictions on religion among the 25 most populous countries, 2007-2020

Among the 25 most populous countries, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Russia had the highest levels of overall restrictions on religion in 2018, while Japan, South Africa, Italy, Brazil and the United States had the fewest restrictions.
short readsJan 27, 2023

Religiously unaffiliated people face harassment in a growing number of countries

Religiously unaffiliated people were harassed by governments, private groups or both in 27 countries in 2020.
reportNov 29, 2022

1. Number of countries with ‘very high’ government restrictions falls for third straight year in 2020

CORRECTION (Dec. 19, 2025): Two charts and some of the text in Chapter 1 have been corrected with updated SHI figures for 2019. Refer to the errata page for details. Countries with the most extensive government restrictions All 198 countries and territories in the study had at least some government restrictions on religious activity in 2020, such […]

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Search results for: “egypt”

What the data says about U.S. foreign aid

3. Median scores for government restrictions and social hostilities stay the same in 2022

In some countries, immigration accounted for all population growth between 2000 and 2020

Most countries don’t observe daylight saving time

China’s Christian population appears to have stopped growing after rising rapidly in the 1980s and ’90s

4. Restrictions in the 25 most populous countries

3. Median scores for government restrictions peak, social hostilities involving religion tick down in 2021

Restrictions on religion among the 25 most populous countries, 2007-2020

Religiously unaffiliated people face harassment in a growing number of countries

1. Number of countries with ‘very high’ government restrictions falls for third straight year in 2020