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Rankings in Global Index · 9.1 Human Rights and Transparency

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2179.1 Human Rights and Transparency

Religious Freedom Index (Pew Research Center)

Partially meets

The criterion is partially established.

Mexico presents a mixed religious-freedom profile. Pew reports moderate government restrictions, scoring 4.4 out of 10, and high social hostilities, scoring 4.7 out of 10. These results indicate that formal protections coexist with specific restrictions, community conflicts, and adverse effects on religious minorities.

Freedom House awards 4 out of 4 for the individual freedom to practice or express a religion or nonbelief. This favorable assessment prevents a fully negative classification, but it does not offset the government restrictions and social hostilities identified by Pew. The scores measure different dimensions and are not averaged.

Sources (4): the documents that support the traffic light
  1. Religious restrictions in the 25 most populous countries in 2023 — Pew Research Center (Document · 2026)
  2. Freedom House. (2026). Mexico: Freedom in the World 2026 (Report)
  3. Pew Research Center. (2026). Methodology: More countries had elevated levels of social hostilities involving religion in 2023 (Report)
  4. United States Department of State. (2024). 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom: Mexico (Report)

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Traffic light
Partially meetscoded on 15-09-2026 · Complete / validated
International support
No
Indicator score
0.50 out of a possible 1.25
Weight in the index
0.42 %
What it means
There is a framework or actions, but implementation is partial, uneven or not proven. Rules.
In the dimension
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