A Closer Look at How Religious Restrictions Have Risen Around the World
Pew Research Center (2019), 126 pp.
OVERVIEW, 5
Categories of government restrictions on religion, 10
Categories of social hostilities involving religion, 27
Overall restrictions in 2017, 42
1 Number of countries with ‘very high’ government restrictions on religion remains at highest levels since 2007, 44
2 Harassment of religious groups steady in 2017, remaining at 10-year high, 51
3 Middle East still home to highest levels of restrictions on religion, although levels have declined since 2016, 56
4 Among the 25 most populous countries, Egypt, India, Russia, Pakistan and Indonesia had the highest overall restrictions on religion in 2017, 62
Methodology, 65
Appendix A: Government Restrictions Index, 85
Appendix B: Social Hostilities Index, 88
Appendix C: Religious restrictions index scores by region, 91
Appendix D: Summary of results, 98
Appendix E: Country category scores by region, 120
Categories of government restrictions on religion, 10
Categories of social hostilities involving religion, 27
Overall restrictions in 2017, 42
1 Number of countries with ‘very high’ government restrictions on religion remains at highest levels since 2007, 44
2 Harassment of religious groups steady in 2017, remaining at 10-year high, 51
3 Middle East still home to highest levels of restrictions on religion, although levels have declined since 2016, 56
4 Among the 25 most populous countries, Egypt, India, Russia, Pakistan and Indonesia had the highest overall restrictions on religion in 2017, 62
Methodology, 65
Appendix A: Government Restrictions Index, 85
Appendix B: Social Hostilities Index, 88
Appendix C: Religious restrictions index scores by region, 91
Appendix D: Summary of results, 98
Appendix E: Country category scores by region, 120
