Global Restrictions on Religion, a new study by the Pew
Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, finds that 64
nations – about one-third of the countries in the world – have high or
very high restrictions on religion. But because some of the most
restrictive countries are very populous, nearly 70 percent of the
world’s 6.8 billion people live in countries with high restrictions on
religion, the brunt of which often falls on religious minorities.
