The Pew Forum has released a report on church-state relationships around the world. The complete report is here. The report is nicely conceived and has several useful graphics and appendices.
They partition nations into four categories: (i) those with official state religions, (ii) those with a preferred or favored religion, (iii) those with no official or preferred religion, and (iv) those that are hostile to religion, with the distribution of countries in these categories being 22%, 20%, 53%, and 5%, respectively.
Countries from the Middle East and North Africa are common in category (i), with Islam the most common official state religion in those countries. European countries are prominent in category (ii), with Christianity the most common favored religion.
This is a nice resource for researchers and students alike.
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