LEAVING RELIGION, BY COUNTRY
Saudi Arabia is not Sweden. Brazil is not Italy. Israel is not the US.
The cost of walking out of your tradition depends a lot on where you live. In some countries it is mostly a private family conversation. In others it is community shunning. In a handful, it is a legal and physical safety problem. This index lets you start with your country and find the pillar pages that fit what you came out of.
NORTH AMERICA
17 countries
United States
Pop. 334M
Read →Canada
Pop. 40M
Read →Mexico
Pop. 130M
Read →Guatemala
Pop. 18M
Read →Honduras
Pop. 10M
Read →El Salvador
Pop. 6.3M
Read →Costa Rica
Pop. 5.2M
Read →Panama
Pop. 4.4M
Read →Cuba
Pop. 11M
Read →Dominican Republic
Pop. 11M
Read →Haiti
Pop. 12M
Read →Jamaica
Pop. 3M
Read →Trinidad and Tobago
Pop. 1.4M
Read →Bahamas
Pop. 410K
Read →Barbados
Pop. 282K
Read →Belize
Pop. 410K
Read →Nicaragua
Pop. 7M
Read →EUROPE
38 countries
United Kingdom
Pop. 67M
Read →Germany
Pop. 84M
Read →France
Pop. 68M
Read →Spain
Pop. 48M
Read →Italy
Pop. 59M
Read →Netherlands
Pop. 18M
Read →Belgium
Pop. 11.6M
Read →Sweden
Pop. 10.5M
Read →Norway
Pop. 5.5M
Read →Denmark
Pop. 5.9M
Read →Finland
Pop. 5.5M
Read →Switzerland
Pop. 8.8M
Read →Austria
Pop. 9.1M
Read →Portugal
Pop. 10.3M
Read →Ireland
Pop. 5.1M
Read →Poland
Pop. 38M
Read →Czech Republic
Pop. 10.8M
Read →Romania
Pop. 19M
Read →Greece
Pop. 10.4M
Read →Hungary
Pop. 9.7M
Read →Croatia
Pop. 3.9M
Read →Serbia
Pop. 6.6M
Read →Bulgaria
Pop. 6.5M
Read →Slovakia
Pop. 5.4M
Read →Ukraine
Pop. 37M
Read →Lithuania
Pop. 2.8M
Read →Latvia
Pop. 1.8M
Read →Estonia
Pop. 1.3M
Read →Iceland
Pop. 380K
Read →Luxembourg
Pop. 660K
Read →Malta
Pop. 520K
Read →Cyprus
Pop. 1.2M
Read →Slovenia
Pop. 2.1M
Read →North Macedonia
Pop. 1.8M
Read →Albania
Pop. 2.8M
Read →Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pop. 3.2M
Read →Montenegro
Pop. 620K
Read →Moldova
Pop. 2.6M
Read →AFRICA
21 countries
Nigeria
Pop. 225M
Read →South Africa
Pop. 60M
Read →Kenya
Pop. 55M
Read →Ghana
Pop. 33M
Read →Ethiopia
Pop. 126M
Read →Tanzania
Pop. 65M
Read →Egypt
Pop. 110M
Read →Morocco
Pop. 37M
Read →Algeria
Pop. 45M
Read →Tunisia
Pop. 12M
Read →Uganda
Pop. 48M
Read →Rwanda
Pop. 14M
Read →Senegal
Pop. 18M
Read →Cameroon
Pop. 28M
Read →Ivory Coast
Pop. 28M
Read →Mozambique
Pop. 33M
Read →Angola
Pop. 36M
Read →Zimbabwe
Pop. 16M
Read →Botswana
Pop. 2.6M
Read →Namibia
Pop. 2.6M
Read →Democratic Republic of Congo
Pop. 102M
Read →ASIA
20 countries
Japan
Pop. 125M
Read →South Korea
Pop. 52M
Read →China
Pop. 1.4B
Read →India
Pop. 1.4B
Read →Indonesia
Pop. 277M
Read →Philippines
Pop. 115M
Read →Thailand
Pop. 72M
Read →Vietnam
Pop. 99M
Read →Malaysia
Pop. 33M
Read →Singapore
Pop. 5.9M
Read →Taiwan
Pop. 23M
Read →Pakistan
Pop. 230M
Read →Bangladesh
Pop. 170M
Read →Sri Lanka
Pop. 22M
Read →Nepal
Pop. 30M
Read →Myanmar
Pop. 55M
Read →Cambodia
Pop. 17M
Read →Laos
Pop. 7.5M
Read →Mongolia
Pop. 3.4M
Read →Uzbekistan
Pop. 36M
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