Faith on the Move

Test Your Knowledge

GRAPHIC • March 8, 2012

How much do you know about immigration and religion around the world?

Test your knowledge with our short, 10-question quiz. Questions are based on findings from the report “Faith on the Move: The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants” by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Some of the questions may be difficult, and the correct answers may surprise you. When you finish the quiz, explore the full report, interactive map and sortable tables – then take the quiz again to see how much you’ve learned!

1. An international migrant is someone who has left the country where he or she was born
    and has been living elsewhere for a year or longer. About how many international
    migrants are there in the world?

About 50 million
About 100 million
About 200 million
About 500 million

2. What’s the most common religion among international migrants?

Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Hinduism

3. And within which religious group is migration most common? That is, which religious group
    has the most migrants in relation to its size?

Christians
Muslims
Jews
Hindus

4. Which country has the highest number of Christian immigrants (Christians born elsewhere)
living within its borders?

United States
Russia
France
Japan

5. Which country has the highest number of Muslim immigrants (Muslims born elsewhere)
living within its borders?

United States
Russia
Germany
Saudi Arabia

6. Which country has the highest number of Buddhist immigrants (Buddhists born elsewhere)
living within its borders?

China
Singapore
Japan
United States

7. About what share of all international migrants live in the U.S.?

10%
20%
33%
50%

8. True or false: In the European Union, Muslim immigrants outnumber Christian immigrants.

True
False

9. True or False: More Hindu immigrants live in the United States than in the United Kingdom.

True
False

10. True or False: The U.S. has received about as many immigrants from Mexico alone
    (including both legal immigrants and unauthorized ones) as any other nation has received
    from all sources combined.

True
False