Sub-Saharan Africa

Almost all of the world’s nations have laws specifying at which age a couple can marry, and in most of these countries, those under the age of 18 are allowed to wed.

The number of refugees who have entered Europe this summer has declined compared with last year, but the backlog of asylum applications continues to grow.

More than 60 million people are displaced from their homes as of the end of 2015, the highest number of displaced people since World War II.

Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey had some of the highest levels of religious restrictions in 2014.

Worldwide, both government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion decreased modestly from 2013 to 2014 despite a rise in religion-related terrorism, according to Pew Research Center’s latest annual study on global restrictions on religion.1 Of the 198 countries included in the study, 24% had high or very high levels of government restrictions in […]

But the U.S. and Europe are quite different when it comes to their migrant populations’ origin countries.

The UK has the fifth-largest immigrant population in the world, at 8.5 million.

Somalia has faced lawlessness and strife during its decades-long civil war. As the country of 10.8 million continues to experience political and economic instability, its people are increasingly living outside of Somalia. New migrants are making their way to places like Europe, but they face a long and dangerous journey over land and sea. Hundreds […]

By a wide margin, the U.S. has more immigrants than any other country in the world.

There are striking differences in the extent to which people think the Quran should influence their nation’s laws, according to surveys across 10 countries with significant Muslim populations.