Europe & Russia

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 markedly around the world.

Four of the 10 most populous countries will no longer be among the top 10 in 2100 – and all four will be supplanted by rapidly growing African nations.

Across many G20 countries, people are strongly in favor of increased gender equality and see global climate change as a major threat.

United Kingdom legislators in the House of Lords and House of Commons tweeted more critical content of Trump’s recent visit to the nation.

For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century.

Across 27 nations surveyed by Pew Research Center in 2018, people were more dissatisfied than satisfied with the way democracy is working in their country. This held especially true in a dozen countries where negative views of democracy outpaced positive by more than 10 percentage points.

Public support for the separation of church and state is widespread in Western Europe, even in countries that have a government-mandated church tax to fund religious institutions, according to a new analysis of a recent Pew Research Center study.

The share of Euroskeptic members of the European Parliament jumped to 29% in 2014. That's up from 17% in 1979.

Learn how Europeans in 10 EU member states feel about key institutions and issues ahead of European Parliament elections.

As of the end of 2017, 57% of 167 countries with populations of at least 500,000 were democracies of some kind, and only 13% were autocracies.