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Other Demographics

Explore Pew Forum publications—including public opinion polls, research studies, event transcripts and interviews—about differences based on various demographics, such as place of birth and family composition, that exist within and across religious traditions.

Global Restrictions on Religion
More than half a century ago, the United Nations affirmed the principle of religious freedom in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, defining it as "the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion."