7 key changes in the global religious landscape
What will the world’s religious landscape look like a few decades from now?
What will the world’s religious landscape look like a few decades from now?
As of 2010, nearly a third of the world's population identified as Christian. But if demographic trends persist, Islam will close the gap by the middle of the 21st century.
Explore the estimated religious composition of 198 countries and territories for 2010 to 2050.
The U.S. ranks in the middle range of the nearly 200 countries we analyzed to assess restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religious groups.
Polish animosity for Russia surged in our spring 2014 survey, with 81% saying they had an unfavorable view.
Harassment and attacks against religious minorities continue in many countries there, and hostilities against Jews in particular have been spreading.
Social hostilities toward religion declined in 2013, while government restrictions on religious beliefs and practices remained level. Harassment of Jews, however, reached a seven-year high.
Explore the levels of social hostilities and government restrictions on religion in the world's 25 most populous counties since 2007.
Survey Report As fighting continues in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed rebels, the public has become more supportive of sending arms to the Ukrainian government and increasing sanctions on Russia. More still oppose (53%) than favor (41%) the U.S. sending arms and military supplies to the Ukrainian government, but support for arming Ukraine […]
The future belongs to the young. So how the next generation feels and thinks matters to people of all ages. As much as baby boomers may lament it, it is millennials — those coming of age in this new century — who will shape the world’s economic and geopolitical destiny for years to come.