Extremists targeted Christian students at Garissa University College, Kenya.
Usually a peaceful religion – but in Burma Buddhists have attacked other faiths.
This Amadiyya Muslim shopkeeper was slain in Glasgow.
Football is helping promote interfaith harmony in Pakistan.
These Yazidis fled horror at the hands of Daesh (ISIS).
Sig. Deteriorated
Deteriorated
No change
Improved
Compiled by in-country experts – journalists, academics and commentators – the Religious Freedom in the World Report 2016, includes analysis on 196 nations; almost every country around the globe. The report examines the degree to which nation states uphold the principle of religious freedom – as enshrined primarily in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – and the impact of destabilising extremist groups within society.
10% - 18% - 26% - 46%
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12% - 19% - 23% - 46%
25% - 32% - 21% - 21%
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0% - 5% - 47% - 47%
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0% - 5% - 38% - 57%
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37% - 50% - 13% - 0%
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0% - 0% - 7% - 93%
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0% - 0% - 29% - 71%
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17% - 83% - 0% - 0%
Download one or more of our 24 country reports from Western Europe.
0% - 8% - 29% - 63%
Here are the 196 country reports in alphabetical order.
