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English: freedom of religion by country, based on the report Global Restrictions on Religion, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, December 2009
taking into account both governmental restrictions on the freedom of religion and social hostility related to religion.
- light yellow: low restrictions
- dark yellow: moderate restrictions
- orange: high restrictions
- red: very high restrictions
todo: improve color coding. this is an overlay of two datasets, see p. 28 of report.
Data for 50 most populous countries:
- very high
- Saudi Arabia , Iran
- high to very high
- India, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Israel, Burma
- high
- Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Turkey, Algeria, Russia, Uzbekistan, Maldives
- moderate to high
- Eritrea, China, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Morocco, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria,
- moderate
- Ukraine, Germany, Thailand, France, Tanzania, Congo, Philippines, Ghana
- low to moderate
- USA, Uganda, Venezuela, Italy, UK, South Africa, Colombia
- low
- Taiwan, Spain, South Korea, Scandinavia, Peru, Mozambique, Brazil, Poland, Argentina, Canada, Ecuador
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