Published annually by the US State Department it measures commitment to allow individuals to practice individual religious beliefs in countries worldwide.
Long term trends can be traced via their website which has the full text of all reports from 2001 onwards.
Each country section has a religious demography profile, information on legal protection of religious rights, and societal tolerance. The latter includes summaries of hate crimes, religious attacks and key attitude surveys.
Other great sources of religious data include:
The British Social Attitudes survey enables you to explore data on religious affiliation since 1983. Find out if British citizens are getting more or less religious.
Coming in the future! The Database of Religious History has support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada it is aiming to provide a free online encyclopedia of qualitative and quantitative data on religious history worldwide. Contributors are invited.
Association of Religion Data Archives.
Based at Pennsylvania State University, this wonderful online resource aims to provide free access to statistical information about religion. While the greatest focus is upon the US, there are also international data sets. Topics covered include church membership, surveys of lifestyle and public attitudes towards religion. Most information is post 1990. The site also contains religious profiles of individual nations with data on religious group membership and tolerance.
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