Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains, who together make up nearly all of the remaining 6% of the population, were relatively stable in their shares since the 1951 census.2 Over the …

We hope to publish estimates of the current number of Christians later in 2011, followed in 2012 by projections for the future growth of Christianity and other ma-jor world faiths, such as …

Growth of Islam & Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1900 Source: World Religion Database. Historical data draw on government records, historical atlases and reports of …

May 29, 2018 · Over the decade from 2007 to 2017, government restrictions on religion — laws, policies and actions by state officials that restrict religious beliefs and practices — increased …

laboration involving social scientists in about 50 countries. During the same period, the share of Russia’s population tha does not identify with any religion dropped from 61% to 18%. The …

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Aug 10, 2016 · This relationship holds true even when controlling for the countries’ population size, level of democracy and levels of social hostilities involving religion (because government …

Jun 28, 2011 · The total number of international migrants living around the world has grown substantially over the past 50 years, climbing from about 80 million people (or 2.6% of the …

The study covers 198 countries and self-administering territories, representing more than 99.5% of the world’s population. In preparing this study, the Pew Forum devised a battery of …