This table shows all 198 countries and territories in descending order of their scores on the Pew Forum’s index of social hostilities involving 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 11 countries in the Very High (top 5%) category is greater than the range of scores among the 117 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)
| High
Next 15% of scores
Scores from 3.3 to 6.7 |
| Iraq |
| India |
| Pakistan |
| Afghanistan |
| Indonesia |
| Bangladesh |
| Somalia |
| Israel |
| Sri Lanka |
| Sudan |
| Saudi Arabia |
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| High
Next 15% of scores
Scores from 3.3 to 6.7 |
| Egypt |
| Palestinian territories |
| Yemen |
| Nigeria |
| Comoros |
| Kyrgyzstan |
| Syria |
| Nepal |
| Iran |
| Lebanon |
| Turkey |
| Mexico |
| Kenya |
| Romania |
| Algeria |
| Jordan |
| Ghana |
| Ethiopia |
| Georgia |
| Russia |
| Liberia |
| Ivory Coast |
| Burma (Myanmar) |
| Moldova |
| Philippines |
| Greece |
| Timor-Leste |
| Serbia |
| Congo |
| Chad |
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| Moderate
Next 20% of scores
Scores from 1.9 to 3.2 |
| Colombia |
| Tunisia |
| Uzbekistan |
| Angola |
| France |
| Brunei |
| Tanzania |
| Kazakhstan |
| Morocco |
| Central African Republic |
| Maldives |
| Kuwait |
| Kosovo |
| Thailand |
| Bulgaria |
| Ukraine |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| Armenia |
| South Africa |
| Montenegro |
| United Kingdom |
| Germany |
| Guinea |
| Bahrain |
| Azerbaijan |
| Libya |
| Djibouti |
| Croatia |
| Mongolia |
| Italy |
| Denmark |
| Zimbabwe |
| Burkina Faso |
| Belarus |
| Switzerland |
| Vietnam |
| United States |
| Republic of Macedonia |
| Australia |
| Fiji |
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| Low
Bottom 60% of scores
Scores from 0 to 1.8 |
| Spain |
| Slovakia |
| Hungary |
| Sierra Leone |
| Cyprus |
| Western Sahara |
| Canada |
| Tajikistan |
| China |
| Burundi |
| Tuvalu |
| Vanuatu |
| Niger |
| Bhutan |
| Venezuela |
| Japan |
| Malaysia |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
| Netherlands |
| Austria |
| Papua New Guinea |
| Cameroon |
| Belgium |
| Mauritius |
| Poland |
| Mauritania |
| Malawi |
| Kiribati |
| Turkmenistan |
| Uganda |
| Czech Republic |
| Sweden |
| Brazil |
| Haiti |
| Guatemala |
| Lithuania |
| Namibia |
| Iceland |
| Latvia |
| Gambia |
| St. Lucia |
| Paraguay |
| Laos |
| Slovenia |
| Norway |
| Samoa |
| Argentina |
| New Zealand |
| Benin |
| Northern Cyprus |
| Mozambique |
| Ireland |
| Chile |
| Finland |
| Estonia |
| Nauru |
| Cuba |
| Bolivia |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Cambodia |
| Ecuador |
| Eritrea |
| Hong Kong |
| Uruguay |
| Nicaragua |
| Portugal |
| Madagascar |
| Liechtenstein |
| Albania |
| Guinea Bissau |
| Honduras |
| Bahamas |
| United Arab Emirates |
| Costa Rica |
| El Salvador |
| Solomon Islands |
| Republic of Congo |
| Oman |
| Qatar |
| Peru |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Dominica |
| Barbados |
| St. Kitts and Nevis |
| Palau |
| Botswana |
| Mali |
| Gabon |
| Malta |
| Singapore |
| Macau |
| Jamaica |
| Luxembourg |
| Andorra |
| Marshall Islands |
| Cape Verde |
| Monaco |
| Equatorial Guinea |
| Rwanda |
| Togo |
| Tonga |
| Zambia |
| Swaziland |
| South Korea |
| Seychelles |
| Belize |
| Panama |
| Guyana |
| Lesotho |
| Grenada |
| Taiwan |
| Dominican Republic |
| Senegal |
| Federated States of Micronesia |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
| Suriname |
| San Marino |
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| NOTE: The number of countries in each percentile range may be slightly more or less than the actual percentage because of tie scores.NORTH KOREA: The sources clearly indicate that the government of North Korea is among the most repressive in the world with respect to religion as well as other civil liberties. But because North Korean society is e ectively closed to outsiders, the sources are unable to provide the kind of specifi c and timely information that the Pew Forum coded in this quantitative study. Therefore, the report does not include a score for North Korea on either index. |
