Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities Overall Decline in Social Hostilities in...

Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and HostilitiesOverall Decline in Social Hostilities in 2013, Though Harassment of Jews Worldwide Reached a Seven-Year High

Pew Research Center Religion & Public LifeFEBRUARY 26, 2015

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/02/26/religious-hostilities/

39% of the world’s countries have high or very high restrictions on

religious freedom*

These 39% of countries include more than three-

fourths (77%) of the world’s population*

77%

19%4%

39%

31%

30%

Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015Data for 2013. High/very high totals given in report. Moderate and low data % calculated from 2012 comparison.

Global Restrictions on Religious Freedom

Low 30%

Moderate 31%

High or Very High

39%

Levels of religious restrictions by percentage of the WORLD’S COUNTRIES


39% of countries have high or very high restrictions on religious freedom


High or Very High 77%

Low 4%

Moderate 19%

Levels of religious restrictions by percentage of GLOBAL POPULATION

These countries include more than three-fourths

of the world’s population

30%

Pew Research Center, Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities - February 2015

30% of countries have government

restrictions that tend to target religious

minorities

Religious Restrictions and Social Hostilities Targeting Religious Minorities

61% of countries have social hostilitiesthat tend to target religious minorities

61%

Social Hostilities Involving ReligionVery HighSCORES 7.2 AND HIGHER

IsraelIndiaPalestinian territoriesPakistanNigeriaBangladeshSri LankaRussiaSyriaSomaliaAfghanistanTanzaniaIndonesiaEgyptCentral African RepublicIraqKenya

HighSCORES FROM 3.6 TO 7.1 Turkey

GeorgiaChinaGermanySwedenBosnia-HerzegovinaUgandaNigerMaldivesMoldovaBrazilTuvaluMexicoItalyKuwaitBulgariaVietnamMaliSaudi Arabia

YemenLibyaBurma (Myanmar)SudanThailandLebanonAlgeriaNepalTunisiaUnited KingdomKosovoArmeniaRomaniaGreeceIranFranceEthiopia


Israel

India

Palestinian

territories

Pakistan

Nigeria

Bangladesh

Sri Lanka

Russia

Syria

Somalia

Afghanistan

Tanzania

Indonesia

Egypt

CAR

Iraq

Kenya

Social Hostilities Involving Religion

Very High HighModerateLow

IsraelIndiaPalestinian territoriesPakistanNigeriaBangladeshSri LankaRussiaSyriaSomaliaAfghanistanTanzaniaIndonesiaEgyptCARIraqKenya

YemenLibyaBurma (Myanmar)SudanThailandLebanonAlgeriaNepalTunisiaUnited KingdomKosovoArmeniaRomaniaGreeceIranFranceEthiopiaTurkey

GeorgiaChina

GermanySwedenBosnia-HerzegovinaUgandaNigerMaldivesMoldovaBrazilTuvaluMexicoItalyKuwaitBulgariaVietnamMaliSaudi Arabia


Yemen

Libya

Burma (Myanmar)

Sudan

Thailand

Lebanon

Algeria

Nepal

Tunisia

United Kingdom

Kosovo

Armenia

Romania

Greece

Iran

France

Ethiopia

Turkey

Georgia

China

Germany

Sweden

BIH

Uganda

Niger

Maldives

Moldova

Brazil

Tuvalu

Mexico

Italy

Kuwait

Bulgaria

Vietnam

Mali

Saudi Arabia

Government/Legal Restrictions on Religious FreedomVery HighSCORES 6.6 AND HIGHER

ChinaIndonesiaUzbekistanIranEgyptAfghanistanMalaysiaSaudi ArabiaBurma (Myanmar)RussiaTurkeySyriaAzerbaijanSudanBruneiEritreaTajikistanSingapore

HighSCORES FROM 3.6 TO 7.1

MaldivesBahrainPakistanTurkmenistanIraqBelarusMoroccoJordanWestern SaharaLaosAlgeriaVietnamQatarKazakhstanMauritaniaYemenKyrgyzstanIsrael

KuwaitBulgariaSri LankaBangladeshArmeniaCubaOmanDjiboutiIndiaAngolaBhutanTunisiaRwandaLibyaUnited Arab EmiratesEthiopiaRomaniaGermany


MaldivesBahrainPakistanTurkmenistanIraqBelarusMoroccoJordanWestern Sahara

Laos

AlgeriaVietnamQatarKazakhstanMauritaniaYemenKyrgyzstanIsrael

KuwaitBulgaria

Sri LankaBangladeshArmeniaCubaOmanDjiboutiIndia

AngolaBhutanTunisia

RwandaLibyaUAEEthiopiaRomaniaGermany

MaldivesBahrainPakistanTurkmenistanIraqBelarusMoroccoJordanWestern SaharaLaosAlgeriaVietnam

QatarKazakhstan

MauritaniaYemenKyrgyzstanIsraelKuwaitBulgariaSri LankaBangladeshArmeniaCuba

OmanDjiboutiIndiaAngola

BhutanTunisiaRwandaLibyaUAEEthiopiaRomaniaGermany



Very High HighModerateLow

Government/Legal Restrictions on Religious Freedom



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Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke, The Price of Freedom Denied (2011) 206

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