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PEW FORUM ON RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE TOLERANCE AND TENSION: ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TOPLINE SURVEY RESULTS ASK ALL Q1 To begin, how would you describe your day today—has it been a typical day, a particularly good day, or a particularly bad day? Typical day Particularly good day Particularly bad day DK/Ref Total
i. While sub-Saharan Africa has almost twice as many Christians as Muslims, on the African continent as a whole the two faiths are roughly balanced, with 400 million to 500 million followers each. Since northern Africa is heavily Muslim and southern Africa is heavily Christian, the great meeting place is in the middle, a 4,000-mile swath from ...
other estimates based on data from the World Religion Database. Growth of Islam & Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1900 Source: World Religion Database. Historical data draw on government records, historical atlases and reports of religious organizations at the time. Later figures draw on U.N. population estimates, surveys and censuses.
THE WORLD’S MUSLIMS: RELIGION, POLITICS AND SOCIETY . www.pewforum.org . PREFACE . This report examines the social and political views of Muslims around the world. It is based on public opinion surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center between 2008 and 2012 in a total of 39 countries and territories on three continents: Africa, Asia a nd ...
To measure global restrictions on religion in 2019 – the most recent year for which data is available – the study rates 198 countries and territories by their levels of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion. The new study is based on the same 10-point indexes used in the previous studies.
government restrictions on religion in the analysis.1 Four of the five geographic regions analyzed in this report – the Middle East and North Africa, Asia and the Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa and 1 For the purposes of this study, government harassment includes a government offense against a religious group or person due to their
By way of comparison, 71% of adults in the United States, arguably the most religious country in the industrialized world, say they are absolutely convinced of God’s existence. The only sub-Saharan African nations where fewer than eight-in-ten believe in God with absolute certainty are Botswana (74%), Chad, Mozambique and Uganda (77% in each).
Saharan Africa and smaller ones in Europe. Buddhists (3.9), Jews (3.7) and the religiously unaffiliated (3.7) – defined as those who do not identify with an organized religion, also known as “nones” – live in smaller households, on average. Muslims and Hindus live in biggest households Average individual resides in a household of ___ people
multiple-choice questions about topics related to religion (see page 26 for full list of questions). The average U.S. adult is able to answer fewer than half of them (about 14) correctly. The questions were designed to span a spectrum of difficulty.
Very High HighAppendix A: Government Res. rictions IndexThe following table shows all 198 countries and territories in descending order of their scores on Pew Research Center’s index of government restrictions on religion as of t. e end of 2019. The Center has not attached numerical rankings to the countries because there are numerous tied ...