This table shows all 198 countries and territories in descending order of their scores on the Pew Forum’s index of government restrictions on religion. The Pew Forum has not attached numerical rankings to the countries because there are numerous tie scores and the differences between the scores of countries that are close to each other on this table are not necessarily meaningful. This is particularly the case at the low end of the scale: The range of scores among the 43 countries in the Very High (top 5%) and High (next 15%) categories is greater than the range of scores among the 119 countries in the Low (bottom 60%) category.
View list of countries and territories with:
Very high levels of restrictions (top 5% of scores)
High levels of restrictions (next 15% of scores)
Moderate levels of restrictions (next 20% of scores)
Low levels of restrictions (bottom 60% of scores)
| Very High Top 5% of scores Scores from 6.7 to 8.4 |
|---|
| Saudi Arabia |
| Iran |
| Uzbekistan |
| China |
| Egypt |
| Burma (Myanmar) |
| Maldives |
| Eritrea |
| Malaysia |
| Brunei |
| High Next 15% of scores Scores from 4.5 to 6.6 |
|---|
| Indonesia |
| Mauritania |
| Pakistan |
| Turkey |
| Vietnam |
| Algeria |
| Belarus |
| Russia |
| Turkmenistan |
| Libya |
| Sudan |
| Tajikistan |
| Jordan |
| Afghanistan |
| Morocco |
| Laos |
| Syria |
| India |
| Tunisia |
| Azerbaijan |
| Kuwait |
| Kazakhstan |
| Yemen |
| Iraq |
| Western Sahara |
| Bulgaria |
| Singapore |
| Moldova |
| Greece |
| Israel |
| Cuba |
| Oman |
| Somalia* |
| Moderate Next 20% of scores Scores from 2.4 to 4.4 |
|---|
| Bhutan |
| Romania |
| Bangladesh |
| United Arab Emirates |
| Mexico |
| Armenia |
| Bahrain |
| Sri Lanka |
| Comoros |
| Chad |
| Qatar |
| Belgium |
| Nepal |
| Kyrgyzstan |
| Angola |
| Nigeria |
| Serbia |
| France |
| Thailand |
| Palestinian territories** |
| Venezuela |
| Germany |
| Zimbabwe |
| Cambodia |
| Kenya |
| Central African Republic |
| Georgia |
| Slovakia |
| Tanzania |
| Austria |
| Monaco |
| Ukraine |
| Ethiopia |
| Uganda |
| Denmark |
| Latvia |
| Low Bottom 60% of scores Scores from 0 to 2.3 |
|---|
| Tuvalu |
| Equatorial Guinea |
| United Kingdom |
| Iceland |
| Italy |
| Colombia |
| Ivory Coast |
| Republic of Macedonia |
| Rwanda |
| Kosovo |
| Madagascar |
| Costa Rica |
| Mongolia |
| Spain |
| Togo |
| Peru |
| Tonga |
| Lithuania |
| Lebanon |
| Nauru |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| Argentina |
| Congo |
| Zambia |
| United States |
| Djibouti |
| Niger |
| Swaziland |
| Nicaragua |
| Northern Cyprus |
| Cyprus |
| South Korea |
| Macau |
| Hong Kong |
| Liechtenstein |
| Montenegro |
| Seychelles |
| Albania |
| Croatia |
| Guinea |
| Gabon |
| Canada |
| Ecuador |
| Haiti |
| Mauritius |
| Philippines |
| Norway |
| Malta |
| Czech Republic |
| Belize |
| Paraguay |
| Honduras |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Switzerland |
| Guatemala |
| Bahamas |
| Poland |
| Ireland |
| Bolivia |
| Sweden |
| Guinea Bissau |
| Vanuatu |
| Australia |
| Mozambique |
| Mali |
| Slovenia |
| Papua New Guinea |
| Jamaica |
| Panama |
| Botswana |
| Ghana |
| Chile |
| Gambia |
| Uruguay |
| Luxembourg |
| Liberia |
| Dominica |
| Barbados |
| Finland |
| St. Lucia |
| South Africa |
| El Salvador |
| Burkina Faso |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
| Cameroon |
| Estonia |
| Guyana |
| Solomon Islands |
| Andorra |
| Portugal |
| Brazil |
| Samoa |
| Timor-Leste |
| Republic of Congo |
| Kiribati |
| St. Kitts and Nevis |
| Palau |
| Lesotho |
| Grenada |
| Taiwan |
| Dominican Republic |
| Fiji |
| Hungary |
| Senegal |
| Netherlands |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Malawi |
| New Zealand |
| Benin |
| Sierra Leone |
| Japan |
| Burundi |
| Cape Verde |
| Namibia |
| Federated States of Micronesia |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
| Suriname |
| Marshall Islands |
| San Marino |
