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Annual assessment

World Watch List 2026 · Open Doors International

Rank
17 of 50
Level
Very high
Score
79 of 100

Annual · Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

Higher scores mean more pressure on Christians and more violence against them. The other 35 countries in the top 50.

Pressure and violence by area of life, each on a 0 to 16.7 scale
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World Watch List 2026 sub-scores for China
Area of lifeScore (0 to 16.7)
Private life13.4
Family life9.5
Community life13
National life15.8
Church life16.1
Violence11.1

A national, annual assessment. Conditions differ within each country, and it does not measure this week’s events.

Source: World Watch List 2026, © 2026 Open Doors International. Reporting period October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. Country dossier · How this assessment is made

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