Islam

Household size and composition often vary by religious affiliation, data from 130 countries and territories reveals. Muslims and Hindus have larger households than Christians and religious “nones,” influenced in part by regional norms.

A look at how supporters of European populist parties stand out on key issues, from the European Union to Putin.

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.

A decline in U.S. refugee admissions comes at a time when the number of refugees worldwide has reached the highest levels since World War II.

Most American adults (82%) say Muslims are subject to at least some discrimination in the U.S. today, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March – including a majority (56%) who say Muslims are discriminated against a lot.

The global Muslim population is more concentrated in Islam’s main population centers than the global Christian population is for Christianity.

Almost all New Zealanders said in a 2011-2012 survey that they would accept a neighbor of a different religion.

On issues including national identity and religious minorities, views among UK adults align very closely to general opinion across the EU.

About half of black Muslims are converts to Islam, a relatively high conversion level. Black Muslims, like black Americans overall, have high levels of religious commitment.

In 2016, seven nations – Turkey, Brunei, Ethiopia, France, Hungary, Niger and Tunisia – directly used emergency laws to restrict religion, according to Pew Research Center’s latest annual religious restrictions study. While a number of different religious groups were targeted, these laws imposed restrictions on Muslims more than any other group.