The number of countries where Jewish people are mistreated is at a seven-year high.
According to the Pew Research Center, about a quarter of the world’s countries are still struggling to respect the religious minorities living with their borders. Jews have had it especially hard.
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Overall, Pew found that 39% of countries had a high or very high overall level of restrictions in 2013. Since some of the countries have booming populations, like China and India, the result is that 77% of the world’s population (or 5.5 billion people) were living in countries with high or very high religious restrictions.
