Government restrictions on religion around the world reached new record in 2018
Government restrictions in 2018 were at their highest level since 2007, when Pew Research Center began tracking these trends.
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Government restrictions in 2018 were at their highest level since 2007, when Pew Research Center began tracking these trends.
We’ve distilled key findings from our data into four email mini-lessons to help people develop a better understanding of Muslims and Islam.
Globally, women are younger than their male partners. They also are more likely to age alone and to live in single-parent households.
Globally, Muslims live in the biggest households, followed by Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated.
Many across Western Europe and the U.S. would be willing to accept Muslims as family or as neighbors. Yet there is no consensus on whether Islam fits into these societies.
In addition to government actions, there also was a dramatic increase in Europe in some measures of social hostility to religion.
Americans who personally know someone in a different religious group are more likely to feel positively about members of that group.
A declining share of Canadians identify as Christians. Most Canadians say religion’s influence in public life is waning in their country.
The Center’s tenth report on religious restrictions around the world focuses on trends in restrictions from 2007 to 2017.
The global Muslim population is more concentrated in Islam’s main population centers than the global Christian population is for Christianity.
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