How Religious Restrictions Have Risen Around the World from 2007 to 2017

The Pew Research Center released a new study today that examines how religious restrictions have increased around the world.  The study can be found here.  Here's a quote:

These trends suggest that, in general, religious restrictions have been rising around the world for the past decade, but they have not been doing so evenly across all geographic regions or all kinds of restrictions. The level of restrictions started high in the Middle East-North Africa region, and is now highest there in all eight categories measured by the study. But some of the biggest increases over the last decade have been in other regions, including Europe – where growing numbers of governments have been placing limits on Muslim women’s dress – and sub-Saharan Africa, where some groups have tried to impose their religious norms on others through kidnappings and forced conversions.

This report is the latest effort on this topic by the Pew Research Center.  A similar report on the topic was issued about a year ago (see this blog post).