Europe experienced a surge in government restrictions on religious activity over the last decade
In addition to government actions, there also was a dramatic increase in Europe in some measures of social hostility to religion.
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In addition to government actions, there also was a dramatic increase in Europe in some measures of social hostility to religion.
The global Muslim population is more concentrated in Islam’s main population centers than the global Christian population is for Christianity.
Buddhists made up roughly 7% of the world’s population in 2015. Half of the world’s Buddhists live in China.
India is home to 1.4 billion people – almost one-sixth of the world’s population – who belong to a variety of ethnicities and religions. While 94% of the world’s Hindus live in India, there also are substantial populations of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and adherents of folk religions. Here are five facts about religion in India.
More Muslim adults say they fast during Ramadan than say they pray five times a day or attend mosque weekly.
The U.S. has taken in 3 million of the more than 4 million refugees resettled worldwide since 1980. But in 2017, the U.S. resettled 33,000 refugees, the country’s lowest total since the years following 9/11.
Restrictions on religion continued to climb in 2016 around the world, the second year in a row of increases.
The number of Muslim refugees admitted to the U.S. in the first half of fiscal 2018 has dropped from the previous year more than any other religious group.
Nearly eight-in-ten black Americans identify as Christian, compared with 70% of whites, 77% of Latinos and just 34% of Asian Americans.
Ahead of the Population Association of America’s annual meeting, read seven important recent demographic findings.
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